Performances Quotes - Page 26

• Intel's Pentium III processor operating at 1 GHz is the highest performance microprocessor for PCs, enabling Intel's customers to ship the fastest personal computers in the world.

  Paul Otellini

  World, Enabling, Ships

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• Preferences are bad solutions to performance problems.

  Havoc Pennington

  Problem, Preference, Solutions

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• When I see Almunia's performances, I get angry and have to make a fist in my pocket

  Jens Lehmann

  Pockets, Fists, Angry

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• To prefer paper to gold is to prefer high risk to lower risk, instability to stability, inflation to steady long term values, a system of very low grade performance to a system of higher, though not perfect performance.

  William E. Rees

  Perfect, Long, Risk

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• Physicality is the basis of performance.

  David Petersen

  Bases, Physicality

  David Petersen (2007). “The Well-Tempered Body: Expressive Movement for Actors, Improvisers, and Performance Artists”, p.9, David Petersen

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• Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

  Betty Buckley

  Focus, Capacity

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• The whole point of what I do - the monster ball, the music, the performance art aspect of it, I wanna create a space for my fans where they can feel free and they can celebrate because I didn't fit in in high school and I felt like a freak, so I like to create this atmosphere for my fans where they feel like they have a freak in me to hang out with and they don't feel alone.

  Lady Gaga

  Art, School, Space

  "Lady Gaga: On the Record with Fuse". TV Movie, 2009.

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• It's been a very remarkable year, and I feel very blessed. I lived an isolated lifestyle before the media. I lived a life of solitude and loyalty and commitment to my work. I just don't prioritize my life in the same way that other people do. The only thing that matters is my music and my performance.

  Lady Gaga

  Loyalty, Blessed, Commitment

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• When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

  Casey Affleck

  Expression, Ideas, Trying

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

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• No matter what, I will always prefer a live performance. Whether it be a play or a musical, or playing music live. As long as it's live, it's the best because there's sort of an immediacy to connection between an audience and a performer, whereas where you do film or television, you're at the whim of so many different forces.

  Darren Criss

  Play, Long, Musical

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

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• I can't say I ever wanted to become an entertainer. I already was one, sort of-around the house, at school, doing my magic tricks, throwing my voice and doing Popeye impersonations. People thought I was funny; so I kind of took entertaining for granted It was inevitable that I'd start giving little performances.

  Johnny Carson

  School, Voice, People

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• Mab Jones' poetry is suffused with a cool wit and a wisdom beyond her years. She is a superb performance poet in the tradition of Joolz Denby and Pam Ayres and, like them, her work is beautifully layered and contains bittersweet depths.

  Phill Jupitus

  Years, Depth, Bittersweet

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• I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.

  Christopher Judge

  Sports, Dad, Father

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• The directors did an amazing job and Josh Holloway is just he's just shining. I think that, of the people I started working with, he's one of the people I'm most impressed with. How he's grown and learned and he's been just stunning everyone with his performances.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

  Christian Slater

  Heart, Choices, Untamed

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• I am a believer in the adage - performance leads to recognition, recognition leads to respect and respect leads to power.

  N. R. Narayana Murthy

  Achievement, Recognition, Adages

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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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• All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Perseverance, Art, Looks

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.207

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• Of course, the age-old tradition that a star must appear even if he or she is practically dying is an excellent one, but it can be carried too far. I one played a performance of The Knight of the Burning Pestle with a temperature of 103 and gave sixteen members of the company mumps, thereby closing the play and throwing everybody out of work. There may be a moral lurking somewhere in this, but I cannot for the life of me discover what it is.

  Noel Coward

  Stars, Knights, Play

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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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