Performing Quotes - Page 31

• Our mind is like a field, and performing actions is like sowing seeds in that field.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Mind, Sowing, Fields

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.35, Tharpa Publications US

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• Around 2am as I was performing misogi, I suddenly forgot all the martial techniques I had ever learned. The techniques of my teachers appeared completely new. Now they were vehicles for the cultivation of life, knowledge, and virtue, not devices to throw people with.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Teacher, People, Technique

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• When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Song, Art, Writing

  Biography magazine, April 2002.

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• I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them.

  Lyle Lovett

  Coffee, Cups, Stage

  "LONG Tall LYLE". Interview with Joyce Maynard, www.sfgate.com. September 5, 1999.

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• Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the President of the United States is authorized to present, on behalf of the Congress, a gold medal of appropriate design to the family of the late Honorable Leo J. Ryan in recognition of his distinguished service as a Member of Congress and the fact of his untimely death by assassination while performing his responsibilities as a Member of the United States House of Representatives.

  Leo Ryan

  Responsibility, America, Design

  "Act Awarding Leo Ryan Congressional Gold Medal". United States Congress, H.R. 3348 Public Law 98 - 159, November 18, 1983.

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• Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?

  Ireland Baldwin

  Thinking, Careers, Acting

  "Life According to Ireland Baldwin" by Kat Stoeffel, www.elle.com. August 16, 2013.

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• A little Isadora Duncan and a little Butoh this was choreography and performing that was simultaneously both lush and spare.

  Jennifer Dunning

  Littles, Duncan, Choreography

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• Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Enlightenment, Action

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• It's... time to introduce scholarship programs that give students a choice, especially those who are locked into low-performing schools.

  Rick Perry

  Education, School, Giving

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• I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films. It's more instinctive rather than anything else. I don't do the calculated rehearsed kind of approach, and I hope that I can continue that because I believe that instinct is much stronger and greater when you are performing on camera.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Believe, Stronger, Technique

  "Interview: Amitabh Bachchan". Interview, edition.cnn.com. July 10, 2007.

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• I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV show was like performing a new one-act play. So, it was really no different.

  Bea Arthur

  Tv Shows, Play, Different

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• Being onstage and performing, the high of that, and people coming to see you, and getting to make them laugh - that's what gets me hyped up. It's a nervous excitement.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  People, Laughing, Excitement

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I do love live performing, but I'm not a stand-up naturally, and I don't like the lifestyle of working just in the evenings at clubs.

  Amy Hoggart

  Clubs, Evening, Lifestyle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You start out performing because it's fun, then you learn more things and you want to do more than go "Na-na-na-na" on a stage. The production end is interesting, writing is interesting, and you learn to coordinate all these things.

  Grace Slick

  Fun, Writing, Interesting

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I haven't always wanted to be an actor, no. I wasn't one of the little kids that was desperate to be an actor. I did a lot of drama and a lot of music, but it was just something for fun on the side. I was quite shy as a kid and I found a lot of freedom in performing. I never knew you could do it as a job.

  Gemma Chan

  Jobs, Fun, Drama

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.

  Mel Brooks

  Writing, Trying, Actors

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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  If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience... I show you some of me. It's not a show no more.

  Eddie Murphy

  Artist, Long, Shows

  "Exclusive: Eddie Murphy on His Return to Music and the Stage". Interview with Brian Hiatt, www.rollingstone.com. September 9, 2013.

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• I just always had a penchant for performing for people.I'm a jackass clown.

  Nick Offerman

  People, Clown, Jackasses

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I always call performing live "giving the people the medicine," because when you're engaged in it, you can feel the sort of soul magic being exchanged between the performer and the audience.

  Nick Offerman

  Medicine, People, Giving

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• What religion cannot do, GRACE does! Grace empowered obedience beats striving and performing any time!! Every time!!

  Floyd McClung

  Grace, Doe, Obedience

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• I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

  Maddie Hasson

  Dancer, Firsts, Realizing

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• I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

  Katherine Waterston

  Childhood, Acting, Too Late

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• I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as The Royal Variety Show, performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.

  Shirley Eaton

  Opposites, Theatre, Bob

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• Acting is something I've done since I was six years old, performing for my mum and my family in the living room, and I do it because my heart's in it.

  Lily Cole

  Heart, Years, Acting

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

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• One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the miserable business of performing in Mrs. Smedley's Annual Piano Recital at McKinleyville's First Presbyterian Church.

  Peg Bracken

  Piano, Church, Firsts

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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