Performances Quotes - Page 8

• Walking back and forth also helps by creating the illusion that you are thinking of the routines on the spot, giving your performance a more spontaneous feeling.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Thinking, Creating, Giving

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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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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• 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 think it's highly likely that we'll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I'm not sure we're all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens - which is a reasonable view, I'm just not sure I buy into it.

  Gabe Newell

  Thinking, Views, Games

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• 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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• When we got to Steamboat, we were on that big stage at five in the afternoon, and it was almost at capacity. I told my guys 'no matter what we've done to get to this point, no matter what lows, what highs, right now we are here and we've got a point to prove." It was probably one of my most memorable performances thus far.

  Cody Johnson

  Memorable, Guy, Done

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• I'm popular in the United States and I'm popular in England. England is just more concentrated. The people are closer together. Venues are closer together. Many albums of mine have been popular in England, but, no hit singles. All the hit singles I had were before I went to England. So, I'm not necessarily more popular in England, I'm just popular in England, and more so for my performances than hit records. But, I enjoy doing concert halls all over America, England, Scotland and Australia.

  Jack Jones

  Scotland, America, Australia

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• My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father's side and my mother's side... they were all professional musicians. My father was a concert master, he took me to a lot of rehearsals, concerts, performances, opera, ballet. For me, that was life.

  Lalo Schifrin

  Mother, Uncles, Father

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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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• I have my own little sense of style. As far as image goes today for a new artist, you'll find that fashion is really important. I wouldn't want to show up for a performance in something that is absolutely the opposite of who I am as an artist.

  Miranda Lambert

  Fashion, Artist, Who I Am

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• People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.

  John Cage

  Two, People, Attention

  "John Cage: An Autobiographical Statement". www.johncage.org. April 17, 1990.

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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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• During an early performance of 'Spamalot,' I left my regal gloves in the fridge to cool down and didn't remember them until I was on stage. They needed to be thawed overnight.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Gloves, Down And, Remember

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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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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• The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.

  W. Edwards Deming

  People, May, Performance Review

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• If I hold a twenty pound weight, I cannot detect a fly landing on it because the least detectable difference in the stimulus is half a pound. On the other hand, if i hold a feather, a fly landing on it makes a great difference. Obviously then, in order to be able to tell the differences in exertion one must first reduce the exertion. Finer and finer performance is possible only if the sensitivity, that is, the ability to feel the difference is improved.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Hands, Order, Differences

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