Performances Quotes
1471 Performances quotes by 1168 unique authors
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Any performance I do, I give 110 percent.
— Unknown Author
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Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could…
— Ray Dalio
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I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through…
— Ani DiFranco
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Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same…
— William O. Douglas
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Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and…
— Peter Drucker
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A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
— Peter Drucker
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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
— Isadora Duncan
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The performances that I love are ones like Gena Rowlands in 'A Woman Under the Influence,' where women are allowed to be messy and imperfect.…
— Kirsten Dunst
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I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and…
— James Dyson
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You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go down the shops…
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.
— Jesse Eisenberg
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The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of…
— Arthur Erickson
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Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my…
— Vera Farmiga
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I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.
— Harvey Fierstein
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You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a…
— Harvey Fierstein
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I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.
— Renee Fleming
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I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're…
— Scott Hamilton
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We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal…
— Ben Harper
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Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
— Taylor Hackford
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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are…
— Thomas Hardy
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Thankfully, the meat of the Tony telecast is the performances from the shows, so the awards show kind of creates itself around the season, and…
— Neil Patrick Harris
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I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it…
— Anne Hathaway
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To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.
— Levon Helm
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