Performances Quotes - Page 27

• America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

  Meryl Streep

  Birthday, America, People

  "Aged to perfection: Role model for beauty" by Gail O'Neill, www.cnn.com. March 09, 2003.

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• I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

  Barbra Streisand

  Hurt, Feet, Style

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• In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.

  James Surowiecki

  Wall, Judging, Bars

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• I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

  Taylor Swift

  Auto Tune, Promise, Tunes

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• My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.

  Taylor Swift

  Dad, Butterfly, Friendly

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• Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.

  James Taylor

  Impact, Long, Age

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

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• The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.

  Twyla Tharp

  Children, Mean, Dedication

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• You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.

  Marisa Tomei

  Structure, Highlights

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• I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting.

  Lily Tomlin

  Mean, Cameras, Littles

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• It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

  Pete Townshend

  Song, Light, Rocks

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• Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.

  Yani Tseng

  Better Person, Persons, Seeking

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• I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

  Yani Tseng

  Work, Believe, Giving

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• My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and I thought it was a great idea. I felt like it would be good to record over a certain period of time and then take the best performances of that collection of recordings. It appealed to me that it wasn't going to be from just one location.

  Josh Turner

  Night, Ideas, Would Be

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• I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Art, School, College

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• The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

  Ethel Waters

  White, Gloves, Spades

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• I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.

  Johnny Weir

  Mom, Athlete, Winning

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• I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.

  Florence Welch

  Moving, Voice, Style

  "Behind the Scenes with Florence and The Machine: Music Unites Interviews Florence Welch" by Michelle Edgar, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 09, 2010.

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• Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.

  Florence Welch

  Moving, Thinking, High Heels

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• During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.

  Florence Welch

  Song, Expression, Way

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• I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

  Orson Welles

  Decision, Cameras, Actors

  Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich (1992). “This is Orson Welles”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.

  Kate Winslet

  Moving, Proud, Oscars

  Interview to V Magazine, September, 2011.

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• When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don't particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying to challenge herself and make smart choices in spite of people criticising her size and performances.

  Kate Winslet

  Smart, Thinking, People

  Interview to Marie Claire magazine, April, 2009.

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• Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Music, June, People

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• No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech.

  Tom Wolfe

  Brain, Machines, Speech

  "Tom Wolfe on How Speech Made Us Human". Interview with Steve Heilig, www.sfgate.com. March 16, 2008.

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• So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by.

  Al Yankovic

  Repeats, Flattered

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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