Performances Quotes - Page 25

• Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Stupidity, Wicked, Demand

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 87, 1799.

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• The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.

  Gary Lineker

  Team, Kissing, Player

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• I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I'm also one of those people who loves to work, so I'll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Inspirational, Dance, Writing

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• My relationship with shoes has always been linked to shoes, women, women in their shoes and performance.

  Christian Louboutin

  Shoes, Linked

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• A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

  Bela Lugosi

  Actors, Stage, One Time

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• When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playing live, you interact with people and you feel the energy in the room. When the crowd is going crazy, that definitely impacts your vocal performance. I prefer to sing live.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Crazy, Impact, People

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• One of the things I love about music is live performance.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Things I Love, Music Is, Live Performance

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• In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won't make it.

  Bruno Mars

  Awards, Records, Spotlight

  "Bruno Mars: The complete Q&A interview". Interview with George Varga, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 9, 2011.

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• Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Sports, Giving, Floyd Mayweather

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

  Ethel Merman

  Film, Persons, Delivering

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.

  Moby

  Goal, Elements, Noise

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• In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room.

  Moby

  Rainy Day, Rooms, Made

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• In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad.

  Moby

  White, Long, People

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• Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I'm doing this job which is not quite acting - part of it is me, part performance. You're presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing.

  Dylan Moran

  Jobs, Home, Self

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• Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

  Van Morrison

  Different

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• I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Night, Self, Discipline

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• In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, Ideas, Interesting

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• For sure, with golf it's not a physically demanding sport like tennis. That's what makes tennis great - you combine both things. It's a very mental sport and at the same time can be dramatically physical. But I do admire the mentality of sport more than the physicality because physical performance is much easier to practice than mental performance.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sports, Golf, Practice

  Interview with Victoria Coren, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. July 25, 2012.

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• My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Strong, Promise, Produce

  Nixon, Richard M. (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972”, p.12, Best Books on

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• What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Change, Strong, Children

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• Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Play, Interesting

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• Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

  Camille Paglia

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Movie, Progress, Evening

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• My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Wine, Hands, Wife

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• Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Appreciate, Giving, Important

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