Stage Quotes - Page 18

• I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.

  Haley Reinhart

  Believe, Vices, Sound

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• Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.

  Haley Reinhart

  Passion, Kids, Done

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• When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.

  Jerry Reed

  Kids, Six, Seven

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• Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way to his spot on the stage. It's crucial not to blow it. It sets the tempo of the show; it affects everyone's perception of the band.

  Johnny Ramone

  Blow, Play, Light

  Johnny Ramone (2012). “Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone”, p.50, Abrams

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• To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.

  Mary Lynn Rajskub

  Ideas, Off The Beaten Path, People

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• On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this stage I'm often surprised. A different ending or a new character shows up and I'm back to where I began, letting the story happen, just trying to stay out of the way.

  Ron Rash

  Character, Focus, Trying

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• My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.

  S. R. Nathan

  Country, Two, Perception

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• Hiphop has remained in an infantile stage and has not been allowed to grow.

  Slick Rick

  Grows, Infantile

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• I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.

  Samantha Stosur

  Dream, Struggle, Player

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

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• I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that's the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member.

  Danny Strong

  Years, Play, Issues

  "Screenwriter Danny Strong Talks HBO’s GAME CHANGE, Adapting Dan Brown’s THE LOST SYMBOL, and Lee Daniels’ THE BUTLER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 6, 2012.

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• There is no one who's gonna be sitting on that stage who has the record of job creation I have. There's one in particular who's created jobs all around the world. While he was the governor of Massachusetts he didn't create many jobs.

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Massachusetts, Sitting

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• I don't think that Mitt Romney can legitimately say that he learned anything about how to create jobs in the LBO (leveraged buyout) business. The LBO business is about how to strip cash out of old, long-in-the-tooth companies and how to make short-term profits. All the jobs that he talks about came from Staples. That was a very early venture stage deal. That, you know they got out of long before it got to its current size.

  David Stockman

  Jobs, Thinking, Long

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• The teacher will have a certain imprint, and each teacher imprints differently. Ultimately the imprint of the teacher is a limitation that you will have to overcome in your final stages of knowledge.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Overcoming

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• SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.

  Graeme Murphy

  Reputation, Live Music

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• Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.

  Hayley Mills

  Character, Safety, Typical

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• I came to Mozambique in 1986, when I first became involved with Teatro Avenida - a theatre company that stages plays concerned with political and social issues.

  Henning Mankell

  Play, Issues, Political

  "Henning Mankell's Mozambique". www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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• I love Robert Fripp. You know what I really appreciate about Robert Fripp? He always dresses appropriately for the occasion. When he's on stage, he's a Dapper Dan.

  St. Vincent

  Appreciate, Dresses, Dapper

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. September 15, 2011.

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• The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

  Vernor Vinge

  Problem, Passing, Notion

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• I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.

  Kevin Whately

  Couple, Years, Stage Actors

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• From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.

  Olivia Williams

  Fun, Worry, Age

  "Portrait of the Artist: Olivia Williams, Actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2011.

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• As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide.

  Rebecca Wells

  Sweet, Forgiving, Praying

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• The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage.

  Rick Wakeman

  Writing, Needs, Next

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• When I was ten, I saw 'Grease' on stage and thought: 'I want to be part of that; it looks like so much fun.' My mum enrolled me in a local theatre group, and it all went from there.

  Michelle Ryan

  Fun, Grease, Theatre

  "60 Seconds – Michelle Ryan". Interview with Andrew Williams, metro.co.uk. February 15, 2006.

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• I have stage combat training from college, which is drastically different than fighting for the screen, but I do enjoy that kind of stuff.

  Sonequa Martin

  Fighting, College, Training

  "Sonequa Martin-Green (Sasha)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

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• Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.

  Wanda Sykes

  Feels, Thrown

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 20, 2004.

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