Performing Quotes

• I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.

  Lucy Hale

  Believe, Singing, Thrill

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

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• Wherever you are or whatever your job, don't be confused or diverted by false priorities. We have only one mission to perform-that is to fight and win. And, we must do it better than anyone else in the world.

  Leslie E. Brown

  Inspirational, Jobs, Confused

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• The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.

  Eric Whitacre

  Feelings, Going Away, Composer

  Twitter post from May 20, 2016

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• We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

  Aristotle

  Courage, Philosophical, Brave

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• When I perform, I don’t think about the haters, the Internet trolls, or anyone else. I care about giving the person in front of me something they won’t forget. And that’s why I bring the cake and raft out.

  Steve Aoki

  Hater, Thinking, Cake

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• The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Sports, Fun, Athlete

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• I have a love-hate relationship with performing.

  Sarah Brightman

  Art, Hate, Love Hate

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• I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be on, performing.

  Jim Carrey

  Party, Late, Only Time

  "Work experience: The stars before they were famous" by Lucy Barrick, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2000.

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• Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, July, August

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• I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.

  Rose Byrne

  Sibling, Thinking, Always Trying

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• God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Religious, People

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.38, Penguin

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• Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.

  El Lissitzky

  Voice, Design, Gestures

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• The techniques should not be practised simply so they can be performed in the kata. Since karate is a fighting art each technique and movement has its own meaning. The karateka must consider their meaning, how and why they are effective, and practise accordingly

  Shigeru Egami

  Art, Exercise, Fighting

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• The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly. But reaction is important. You might feel in yourself that you're doing it ok but it's when you get the live reaction that you know you're doing it right.

  Tony Iommi

  Silly, Talking, Feelings

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• The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Making Love, Action

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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• Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

  Wes Montgomery

  Music, Play, African American

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• The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts.

  Mrinalini Sarabhai

  Dance, Art, Pain

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• Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

  Michael Johnson

  Life, Motivational, Sports

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• I have no prouder boast to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for Ireland. If I have a duty I will perform it to the full with the unshakable belief that we are a noble race and that chains and bounds have no part in us

  Francis Hughes

  Military, Patriotic, Fighting

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• The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Relationship, Positive, Life Changing

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• As long as you are performing prayer, you are knocking at the door of Allah, and whoever is knocking at the door of Allah, Allah will open it for him.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Religious, Prayer, Islamic

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• The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre.

  Deborah Cox

  Powerful, Theatre, Clubs

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• I don't see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don't get scared.

  Ajay Devgan

  Risk, Scared, Enjoy

  "Biography: Ajay Devgan". www.thecinemaholic.com. March 18, 2018.

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• Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

  Karen Kain

  Artist, Dancer, Performing Arts

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