Performances Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• When I was probably in middle school I saw the mini series Angels in America for the first time and I think Mary Louise Parker's performance in that first of all sparked a deep obsession with Mary Louise Parker, but I also really love Amy Adams because she gets to do comedy and drama so consistently.

  Grace Phipps

  Drama, School, Angel

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• It was during this [as a kid] time that I came out of my shell vocally and performance wise, I learned how to really and truly sing in a different way.... my way. It was an amazing experience because I also realized my lifelong dream - to sing my own songs...I have something to say and it was a great release for me to share that part of myself with others.

  Tessanne Chin

  Wise, Dream, Song

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• I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing.

  Michelle Chamuel

  Car, Singing, Serious

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• What I'm trying to do is bring certain of those engineering values into the design process, such that when you think about form you're already incorporating those performance criteria in the process of the generation of forms.

  Neri Oxman

  Thinking, Engineering, Design Process

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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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• Like most portrait photographers, I aim to record the instant the subject is not thinking about being photographed, striving to get beyond the practiced facial performance, reaching for something unplanned. While trying to be as objective as possible, I acknowledge that every gesture is still an act of artifice.

  Martin Schoeller

  Thinking, Trying, Records

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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 never thought I'd miss Nancy Reagan. There can't be a rating [on the Clinton drug policy] when there hasn't been a performance.

  Charles Rangel

  Missing, Drug, Clinton

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• I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

  Lady Gaga

  Ideas, Research

  "Lady Gaga On Love and Lies". Harper's Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 5, 2014.

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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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• I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.

  Andy Serkis

  Misunderstood, Capture, Evangelical

  "James Franco calls for Andy Serkis Oscar recognition for mo-cap turn" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2012.

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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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• I studied acting and there's certainly an element of performance. I think that the songs are in many ways written to be performed. I think about what it's going to be like to sing them on stage rather than what it's going to be like to have someone at home listening to them on a CD. I guess in that way there's a connection between my acting experience and the songwriting and the way the songs are written.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Song, Home, Thinking

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• I think one of the turning points for me was when my brother recorded the Neil Young MTV "Unplugged" performance from the TV. My brother is eight years older than me and he was starting to get into things like that.

  James Walsh

  Brother, Thinking, Eight

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• I was trying so hard. I would memorize the entire script, then I'd be lipping everybody's lines while they were talking. When I watch those episodes, it's disgusting. My performances were horrible.

  Will Smith

  Air, Talking, Trying

  Biography/Personal quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Yes, I met Carl Barat [from Dirty Pretty Things] yesterday when I was at the POPWORLD TV show. He smiled at me and watched 5 minutes of my performance. I don't think I've said anything that bad about anyone, though, to be honest.

  Lily Allen

  Dirty, Thinking, Tv Shows

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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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• I sustained an injury by singing with the flu during the second performance of Andrea Chenier in Buenos Aires. I was very sick, with chills and sweats, but against my better judgement I let them talk me into singing. Of course I gave the performance everything I had and my voice was hurt. It was scary at first, but fortunately there was no permanent damage. I just had to be patient and wait for the voice to return. It took six weeks of physical recuperation and it took time to recover my confidence as well.

  Ben Heppner

  Hurt, Sweat, Voice

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• They're very sociable occasions and there's no barriers between us and the audience. It's customary that after our performances, we go out into the foyer and spend an hour or so signing autographs for the fans and having our pictures taken with them.We strongly believe that going out front to meet the fans is just as important as playing the gigs - and we all love a good natter!

  Ric Sanders

  Taken, Believe, Important

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