Performing Quotes - Page 33

• I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for 36 hours straight. I slept in shopping mall parking lots. A stand-up gig paid $35; then I could eat for another few days until the next gig. Literally, I was performing to live.

  Dat Phan

  Jobs, Shopping, Two

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• When you're on stage performing stand-up, things only happen one time. I've done bits where I improv a joke, and people are dying. The next show, I try to repeat it, I can't do it. Because with the first audience that was our moment. It can't happen the same way again. We were all there: a certain type of people were at that show and we all got it.

  J. B. Smoove

  People, Dying, Trying

  "That’s how he dooz it! One-on-One with Comedian JB Smoove". Interview with Sergio Mims, www.ebony.com. April 2, 2012.

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• Working on television is therapeutic to me. When that camera comes on all negativity vanishes. I forget about the fight I had with my neighbor. I forget about the pain in my left foot. I forget about my dog dying. Performing, for me, is an emotional cure all.

  Todd Newton

  Dog, Pain, Fighting

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

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• Bible prophecies indicate that in the last dispensation of the gospel, there would be a restoration of all of the principles and practices of former dispensations, which includes temple-building and the performing of ordinances therein.

  David B. Haight

  Practice, Principles, Would Be

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• I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.

  John Lennon

  Xenon, Fleas, Monk

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• It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Tasks, Done, Surveys

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• When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.

  Freida Pinto

  Somewhere Else, Doctors, Order

  "Freida Pinto: The Goddess". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.

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• I love performing ! It's true that you're only as good as your last show. You have to keep testing yourself and keep that lump in your throat before you go on.

  Delbert McClinton

  Goes On, Lasts, Testing Yourself

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• I love songwriting ! It's my Number One passion other than performing. Well, actually it's like wearing three different hats: songwriting, recording and performing. They're all completely different and draw on different types of skills. With recording, there are so many different phases of production, and you have to be very careful because you can polish it until it doesn't shine.

  Delbert McClinton

  Passion, Skills, Numbers

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• Traveling around is what I Like to Do. Me And my boy Arab we live on the road. Doing shows is what I love to do. I put my heart and soul on the track and I Love the response I get. Performing wit UNK? Mane daz a dream come true. He's one of my favorite artist and Inspirations. So when they said Soulja Boy you got a show wit UNK man. Im like Walk It Out UNK? LETS GO!

  Soulja Boy

  Letting Go, Dream, Inspiration

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• We now know from neural-net technology that when there are more connections between points in a system, and there is greater strength between these connections, there will be sudden leaps in intelligence, where intelligence is defined as success rate in performing a task.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Technology, Connections, Tasks

  "A Globe, Clothing Itself with a Brain" by Jennifer Cobb Kreisberg, www.wired.com. June 1, 1995.

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• Simply performing devotional activities will not impart devotion to others but our consciousness should be absorbed.

  Radhanath Swami

  Consciousness, Devotion, Should

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• I have always cautioned partners that I considered three years a minimum in determining whether we were "performing".

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Three, Partners

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• At home and abroad, military men and women are showing purpose and dedication in defending American ideas. They are performing in our country's best traditions under circumstances both difficult and complex. Thanks to their determined spirit of patriotism and professionalism, our country has a powerful and unified defense team, employing its forces in the constant quest for peace and freedom.

  Melvin Laird

  Country, Powerful, Team

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• I'm always amazed at how much people 'get' when I'm performing overseas. I've never had to change my act on my international shows; I just make sure that I've taken some time to get to know the people in those countries before I perform. That's been really useful.

  Russell Peters

  Country, Taken, People

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• I always tweet about where we're at. Since I'm performing at amphitheaters, I'll try to run up and down the stairs and across the field.

  Julianne Hough

  Running, Trying, Fields

  "Julianne Hough Shares Beauty, Fashion, and Workout Secrets!". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 14, 2009.

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• I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little bit iffy because they were performing, a lot of times, for white audiences who found it hilarious.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Song, Thinking, White

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I've done the performing monkey stuff and massive breakdowns, it's just they weren't documented.

  Moby

  Done, Monkeys, Stuff

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Why do I keep performing at my age? What else am I going to do? Play golf? I tried that years ago and all I did was cuss. I can do that without the walk, cuss at Congress and let [Mark]Twain do it. "Imagine that you were an idiot. And then imagine that you were a member of Congress. Wait - I've repeated myself."

  Hal Holbrook

  Golf, Years, Play

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood.

  Tweet

  Art, School, Blood

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I get really nervous right before I go on stage. But once I'm performing, I always love it. It's like being in a different world.

  Birdy

  Different, Goes On, World

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I'm going to do less performing because I'm tired. It's hard to convince anybody that you're just going to take it easy.

  Elaine Stritch

  Tired, Easy, Convince

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• I was always into performing and dancing as a kid and acting was a safe place to have all my feelings, which is good as a child.

  Bella Heathcote

  Children, Kids, Dancing

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I think that there is a purity aesthetic, like "I just make art because I'm an artist and I can't help it. I don't care what the critics say." But different mediums have a different relationship with the public. If you're in a performing medium it's hard not to place some weight on whether or not people come to your shows, or whether or not they're enjoying them.

  Mirah

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You can choose not to be a performing musician. You can choose to just be a recording artist. But then you run into the problem of trying to earn a living and balancing the time that you spend working on your creative efforts to just getting the bills paid. You can go off the grid and live in a cabin and make whatever art you want and also provide all the sustenance you need and not interact with anybody else.

  Mirah

  Running, Art, Effort

  Source: therumpus.net

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