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Performances Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth…
- The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication,…
- All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
- While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.
- Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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- I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature. — J. J. Abrams
- I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and… — Charles Barkley
- I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and… — Marina Abramovic
- There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson