Performances Quotes - Page 21

• When I'm preforming a lot I'm aching to get back in the studio but I love live performance. I love trying to think on my feet and be spontaneous. I like doing that in a live show and I do the same thing in the studio.

  Joel Plaskett

  Thinking, Feet, Trying

  Source: thewiremegazine.blogspot.com

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• One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done abroad because people simply don't know they are there.

  John Kinsella

  People, Done, Impossible

  Source: www.cmc.ie

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• Every time you watch a performance in the theatre, you know that this is just for you, and will never be the same again. It is quite exciting for me.

  Robert Dessaix

  Theatre, Watches, Exciting

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• I like not to know, unless it's something that I need to know, specifically, for how I color a performance.

  Matt Bomer

  Color, Needs, Knows

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 10, 2010.

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• I'm a huge fan of the director, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and his work, and I knew he was going to be an amazing actor's director, based on the performances that I saw in his movies.

  Javier Bardem

  Directors, Fans, Actors

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 27, 2010.

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• I think it's one of those things about live performance - anything goes, anything can happen, and you have to just be ready and able to roll with the punches.

  Sara Bareilles

  Thinking, Anything Goes, Able

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Military, War, Exercise

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• I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Actors, Individual, Great Success

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• A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

  Bela Lugosi

  Actors, Stage, One Time

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• When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playing live, you interact with people and you feel the energy in the room. When the crowd is going crazy, that definitely impacts your vocal performance. I prefer to sing live.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Crazy, Impact, People

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• One of the things I love about music is live performance.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Things I Love, Music Is, Live Performance

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• Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

  Charles Duhigg

  Self, Discipline, Intellectual

  "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business". Book by Charles Duhigg, www.businessinsider.com. February 28, 2012.

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• When people say (nice) things you take them as compliments and it's nice, but it won't help you win your next game. The thing I am trying to keep in mind is that relying on my past performance will not make me win my next game, it'll only get in my way.

  Greg Maddux

  Nice, Winning, Past

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• I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if one should ask a gravedigger what brand of shovel he uses or whether he prefers to work at noon or in moonlight. I am interested only in the care taken, and those secret rehearsals behind it. Even if I do not understand fully what is taking place.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Taken, Mean, Secret

  Michael Ondaatje (2010). “Divisadero”, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.

  William P. Young

  Expectations, Judgement, Guilt

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• ... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.

  D. A. Carson

  Spiritual, Children, Heritage

  D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.26, Baker Academic

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• ...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Sleep, Break Through, Routine

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• The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.

  Diane Ravitch

  Teacher, School, Foundation

  Diane Ravitch (2011). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.200, Basic Books

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• So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English

  Sophie Marceau

  Thinking, Sometimes, Not Happy

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• I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know?

  Eva Green

  Mother, Dad, Naked

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• I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine

  Alison Lohman

  Goes On, Want, Kind

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• I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  People, Want, My Own

  "The Miller's tale". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2004.

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• Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Passionate, France, Dramatic

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• The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.

  Emily Blunt

  Looks, Mysterious, Enjoy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.

  Penelope Keith

  Mother, Chocolate, Paper

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