Performances Quotes - Page 13

• Taping yourself and making yourself listen to the tape of each performance no matter how bad is really important. There's always a nugget line or a direction pointed out to you in even the worst show.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Important, Nuggets, Tape

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• The performance of buggery is no more inevitable a part of homosexuality than an orange syllabub is an inevitable part of a dinner: some may clamour for it and instantly demand a second helping, some are not interested, some decide they will try it once and then instantly vomit.

  Stephen Fry

  Orange, Trying, Demand

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.226, Soho Press

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• The difference, generally speaking, between sportbike people and cruiser people is that sportbike people like performance skill and wear safety gear; cruisers like chrome, noise, and style. It's funny to me to separate them because I ride both. I prefer performance cruisers like the Honda Valkyrie I had or my Triumph Rocket III.

  Alonzo Bodden

  Skills, Differences, People

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• The next actor I meet that uses the term 'courageous' to describe another actor's performance is getting punched in the face.

  Dov Davidoff

  Use, Actors, Next

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• [My early performance work] started by being the activity of a person, any person, like any other - but once that person became photographed it became a specialized person, the object of a personality cult.

  Vito Acconci

  Personality, Cult, Persons

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• Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. It would seem that each medium has absorbed the other, leaving the photographic residing everywhere, but nowhere in particular.

  Geoffrey Batchen

  Photography, Past, Media

  Geoffrey Batchen (2002). “Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History”, p.109, MIT Press

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• Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

  Garry Kasparov

  Art, Chess, Composition

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• If a legislator is safe from competition, or if he represents groups with the same economic and political beliefs, he does not have to change his ideas or respond to the needs of the broader population. He can rest content with a mediocre, absentee performance knowing he will be returned to office. And as he is returned year after year the seniority system gives him immense control over people from other parts of the country whose views he need not heed at all.

  Edward Kennedy

  Country, Views, Years

  Edward Moore Kennedy (1968). “Decisions for a Decade: Policies and Programs for the 1970s”, New American Library of Canada

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• I'm completely unlike a lot of other performers in the past who have been forgiven or come to terms with the real world because they tell everyone their performance is 'just a show.' And so, people say, 'Oh, it's OK then. We don't care. He's not really a bad person.' It's not just a show for me. It's my life.

  Marilyn Manson

  Real, Past, People

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• The Bible is full of God's promises to provide for us spiritually and materially, to never forsake us, to give us peace in times of difficult circumstances, to cause all circumstances to work together for our good, and finally to bring us safely home to glory. Not one of those promises is dependent upon our performance. They are all dependent on the grace of God given to us through Jesus Christ.

  Jerry Bridges

  Jesus, Home, Giving

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• What you can do with visual effects is enhance the look of the character, but the actual integrity of the emotional performance and the way the character's facial expressions work, that is what is going to be created on the day with other actors and the director.

  Andy Serkis

  Integrity, Character, Emotional

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• For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

  Michael Caine

  Stars, Character, Interesting

  "Michael Caine: 'I Spent My Life Doing Something That I Love'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Melissa Block, www.wknofm.org. May 30, 2013.

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• People are inherently good. Our souls are magnificent and capable of extraordinary performance.

  Glenn Beck

  People, Soul, Magnificent

  Glenn Beck, Keith Ablow (2012). “The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• I generally prefer to stay quiet before a performance. I don't like television cameras, but an interview is OK.

  Ben Heppner

  Cameras, Television, Interviews

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• It is obvious that the performance of a stock last year or last month is no reason, per se, to either own it or to not own it now. It is obvious that an inability to "get even" in a security that has declined is of no importance. It is obvious that the inner warm glow that results from having held a winner last year is of no importance in making a decision as to whether it belongs in an optimum portfolio this year.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Decision, Inability

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• My deal will always be one solo performance-nominated or not. Not some thrown together rock tribute.

  Toby Keith

  Rocks, Together, Solo

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• Professor Irwin Corey had some of the best timing in the world, and that is something you can't steal. He talked nonsense, not punch-lines, per se. It was a great performance thing he did and his timing was impeccable. Pat Paulsen was a master of comedy too. The Smothers Brothers' strength was not in the content, but how it was said. We had a couple of our albums, including the Purple Onion album, translated in script form. It didn't work at all. It is no wonder that writers had a hard time writing for the Smothers Brothers, because they wrote impressions, but there was something else.

  Tommy Smothers

  Brother, Couple, Writing

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• Everyone has his own agenda, and it can overshadow the important thing, which is to capture a great performance. They listen to it and think, "Oh, I'm not mixed loud enough...I missed a note there...I'm a half-step off on the turnaround."

  Dick Latvala

  Thinking, Important, Steps

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• I am amazed and thrilled and unbelievably proud about my team's performance.

  Dick Latvala

  Team, Proud, Amazed

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.

  Nathan Lane

  Stage Performance, Theatre, Video

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• In June 2002, airport security searched Al Gore. There's a lot not to like about Gore, but he's not a terrorist. Gore said he was glad he was searched. Why? To spare a terrorist the trouble? This is a serious national issue; why must liberals lie? Searching Al Gore is purely a religious act. It is the purposeless fetishistic performance of ritual in accordance with the civic religion of liberalism.

  Ann Coulter

  Religious, Lying, Airports

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• It's interesting how you can blur the line between acting and living and learn from your performances. I'm just trying to keep learning as much as I can and not get caught up in all the distractions that can play havoc with your mind.

  Kristen Stewart

  Play, Interesting, Mind

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• The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people.

  Peter Drucker

  Real, Organization, Differences

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.255, Routledge

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• (Guy) Pearce, as the hero, makes the mistake of trying to give a good and realistic performance. (Jeremy) Irons at least knows what kind of movie he's in, and hams it up accordingly.

  Roger Ebert

  Mistake, Hero, Iron

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.300, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of the song is measured. I like to diversify, that there are multiple versions of every song. And the songs incorporate a lot of improvisation, and an element of chance, and I think that's exciting. There's no one true formulation of a song, they have various manifestations depending on the space we're in. I like that.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Song, Thinking, Space

  Source: thequietus.com

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