All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I think that if an audience is truly appreciative of a performance, they will show it. Sometimes though, there are little differences,… — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
My family traveled with a whole community to European festivals. My mum did gymnastics, freak show performances, and swung fire in the… — Neon Hitch Copy Share Image
All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those… — George Thorogood Copy Share Image
This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
My grandmother took me to a lot of theater. I was exposed to performance quite a bit - everything from Broadway to… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
Historically, religious groups have been most effective when they have stood apart from government and critiqued the performance of government in light… — Edd Doerr Copy Share Image
Most people I meet are secretly convinced that they’re a little crazier than the average person. People understand the energy necessary to… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable,… — K. Anders Ericsson Copy Share Image
A lot of festivals can be a jumble of electronic music and rock and roll, and everything's all mixed up - some… — Jenny O Copy Share Image
We all get to choose where we set up the stage of our lives - before the Crowds, the Court, the Congregation,… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons [Nikolai] Medtner hasn't had a chance is that his music needs very, very committed performances. If… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
No matter what the character is, I just say to myself 'If I, Melissa George, was in that situation, how would I… — Melissa George Copy Share Image
Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer. — Clive James Copy Share Image
There is a great amount of precision within each individual's technique and role in the play. When you put 22 of them… — Brendan Daly Copy Share Image
Studies have shown that performance gets worse as group size increases ... If you have talented and motivated people, they should be… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein. — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that. — Ben Rosenfield Copy Share Image
The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness. — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
We play different people - our art form is performance art - so unless you're playing the same type of person, I… — Regina King Copy Share Image
No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Sports constantly make demands on the participant for top performance, and they develop integrity, self-reliance and initiative. They teach you a lot… — Byron White Copy Share Image
Everything I do on stage, I made up in saloons. I started doing it in front of people, and that became my… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
free market is a market in which groups and individuals are differently represented. Parity in prosperity and performance between differently able individuals… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
With YouTube, it's mostly about scripting and editing. Live performances depend on the crowd, their mood and reactions. — Bhuvan Bam Copy Share Image
Mental Management is the process of maximising the probability of having a consistent mental performance, under pressure, on demand — Lanny Bassham Copy Share Image
To be happy is very important to do a great performance because you have to be comfortable; your mind has to be… — Lyoto Machida Copy Share Image
It's very hard to rank performances. It's very difficult, and it doesn't really matter if you rank performances. — Nuno Espirito Santo Copy Share Image
I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there… — Silas Weir Mitchell Copy Share Image
The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one's public and on that private audience… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
There are performances in which the people who have the best muscle skills and musical history may be on the stage, but… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with… — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with… — Chris Bailey Copy Share Image
I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
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