What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
I was always very dramatic - my family would probably use the word 'dramatic' - as a child; always putting on performances,… — Margot Robbie Copy Share Image
If a player is not performing, there are two ways of looking at it. You wait for performance to come, or maybe… — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix… — Ron Moody Copy Share Image
Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction… — Barry Bonds Copy Share Image
Effortless [performance] and improvisation are two different things. Just because it's improvised doesn't mean it's effortless and just because it's effortless doesn't… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
For example, the character of Claire in In Dreams wasn't imagined enough by me. Annette Bening is a great actress, and she… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
She's decisive, she's aggressive, she's proven she's capable with high-performance jets. We look for people with the capability to think on their… — David Leestma Copy Share Image
I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely… — Dallas Roberts Copy Share Image
A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson’s biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and competition. The developing… — Terry Orlick Copy Share Image
I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Of course, De Niro has had a long history of memorable performances. Everyone knows 'Taxi Driver' and 'Raging Bull,' but 'Awakenings' really… — Adriane Lenox Copy Share Image
To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a… — Jacques Villeneuve Copy Share Image
I mean, there's definitely a difference between film and live performances or live television. But at the same time, it's just performing.… — Kenny Wormald Copy Share Image
The assertion fallacy is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the analysis… — John Searle Copy Share Image
I do an improv show on Sunday where we have a class, and then afterwards we go and do a live performance… — Nolan Gould Copy Share Image
I've seen how much effort has to go into a tour, the performance and also how to look after yourself, not just… — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films. — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
Welcoming imperfection is the way to accomplish what perfectionism promises but never delivers. It gives us our best performance and genuine acceptance… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
The more you're able to understand how to do a good dramatic performance, that can inform your comedy. It all informs one… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
I know what I want, and I know what needs to be done to make my performance better. So I do these… — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
The subtle performances of the leads, the remarkable Irrfan Khan and the engaging Nimrat Kaur, make 'The Lunchbox' a pleasure to watch. — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets. — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
The press concentrates on a divorce an actor's going through and they ignore the good performances he gives, or the causes that… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Listening and hearing are two different things, and acting is comprehending what the person is saying, thinking how it makes you feel… — David Wenham Copy Share Image
“The greatest performances where when fingertips took away a very thin veil between people and uncovered the universe in its entirety.” — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
I am a believer in the adage - performance leads to recognition, recognition leads to respect and respect leads to power. — N. R. Narayana Murthy Copy Share Image
There is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of… — Aya Cash Copy Share Image
It seemed like an impossible task to do full justice to all Luther classics. And yet these landmark artists have done just… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
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