Performers Quotes

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  Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

  Ted Williams

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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

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• All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Theatre, Different, Roles

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• Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

  Elton John

  Hard Work, Reality, Band

  "Elton John: Wannabe Stars Have to Pay Their Dues". www.foxnews.com. September 20, 2004.

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• Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.

  Alban Berg

  Feelings, Composer, Music Is

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• You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.

  Tom Kenny

  Real, Kind, Remember

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• Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.

  Brian Tracy

  Exercise, Keys, Characteristics

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Successful Selling”, p.8, Jaico Publishing House

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• Great performers are preparing and practicing for a winning day while everyone else is still asleep.

  Robin Sharma

  Inspiring, Successful, Winning

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• Actors and magicians are both performers and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

  Steve Carell

  Actors, Magician

  "Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein Talk THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. March 11, 2013.

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• We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

  Laurence Olivier

  Time, Kings, Politician

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sammy Davis, I backed him up. I used to study him every night. I saw how great performers worked and was able to incorporate a little bit from the best.

  Bobby Vinton

  Night, Littles, Able

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• But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Symphony, Focus, Important

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• Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job.

  Tony Visconti

  Jobs, Directors, Records

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• But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.

  Harry Houdini

  Honor, Assistants, Secrecy

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.43, 谷月社

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• I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

  James Daly

  Artist, People, Privilege

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• I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

  Tony Bennett

  Music, World, Jazz

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• Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

  Les Baxter

  Song, Imagination, Challenges

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• I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they're real people, ya know?

  Alan Vega

  Real, Men, People

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• I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.

  Marc Maron

  Thinking, Taste, Inspired

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• We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.

  Penn Jillette

  Believe, People, Needs

  "Voodoo and Violence". Interview with Steve Kurtz, reason.com. April 1994.

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• No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

  Harry Houdini

  Iron, Magic, Hot

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.38, 谷月社

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• Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

  Jamie Farr

  Hockey, Player, Wonderful

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• Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

  Jamie Farr

  Bills, Canada, Wonderful

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• While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.

  David Antin

  Thinking, Giving, Use

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• That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.

  Donald O'Connor

  Missing, Over You, Three

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• If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Vacuums, Feedback, Audience

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