One does odd things. You see, when one's young one doesn't feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but… — Vincent D'Onofrio Copy Share Image
My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father's side and my mother's side... they were all professional musicians. My father was… — Lalo Schifrin Copy Share Image
When I produce other people, that's the thing I can do well because I've been in a band, and I can play… — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There is indeed a level of improvisation where we can distort and shuffle the music patterns, samples, and loops in each phase… — Thomas Bangalter Copy Share Image
I have never played a superhero in real life and I would imagine it is very different Voiceover is super easy. You… — Jeremy Sisto Copy Share Image
In the performance of our duty one feeling should direct us; the case we should consider as our own, and we should… — Astley Cooper Copy Share Image
We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The impossibility of keeping Englishmen sober ashore was a constant source of complaint, It was the great weakness of 16th century English… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Whenever it poured like this, Max felt as if time was pausing. It was like a cease-fire during which you could stop… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I have become increasingly convinced that the past records of mutual fund managers are essentially worthless in predicting future success. The few… — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
There is no definitive list of the duties of a stage manager that is applicable to all theaters and staging environments. Regardless… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The type of UFO reports that are most intriguing are close-range sightings of machinelike objects of unconventional nature and unconventional performance characteristics,… — James E. McDonald Copy Share Image
The work is important and essential and I've had a therapist myself for decades and it's important work, but I knew that… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Acting's always felt like a kind of creature that lays dormant and collects observations when I'm not working. And then when I'm… — Benn Northover Copy Share Image
The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance… — Lillian Gish Copy Share Image
The music I do in live performances is made for a specific situation. I know that people are sitting down and shutting… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
I was always going to act, literally ever since I was tiny. In fact, I have Doctor Who to thank for that.… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
Beware of Methodologies. They are a great way to bring everyone up to a dismal, but passable, level of performance, but at… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung’s work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into… — Donal Henahan Copy Share Image
In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's… — Mary McDonnell Copy Share Image
As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance… — Jerome Rothenberg Copy Share Image
The truth is, an actor's performance is the result of work by a lot more people than just the actor. When you… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
I look at it [Moonlight] and young Alex Hibbert who plays the young Chiron gives such a beautiful performance. By the time… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
Our behaviour as an athlete is often determined by our previous experiences and how we dealt with those experiences. It is these… — David Horne Copy Share Image
I'm completely unlike a lot of other performers in the past who have been forgiven or come to terms with the real… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't… — Troy Garity Copy Share Image
With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you… — Richard Ayoade Copy Share Image
You have to know everything. You have to know how to light a scene. You have to know all this technical stuff… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
If you are trying to improve the performance of existing operations in known markets, it is an analytical problem where it's just… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image