Performing Quotes - Page 13

• Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.

  Michael Sheen

  Real, Passion, Parent

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

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• Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

  Carly Simon

  Years, Done, Four

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• The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.

  Patti Smith

  Hair, Want, Combs

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• Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.

  Patti Smith

  Long, People, Needs

  "American icon". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2003.

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• When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Book, Years

  "Patti Smith: 'I love Portland ... it's a real book town'". Interview with Jeff Baker, www.oregonlive.com. January 31, 2010.

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• Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

  Robert Smith

  Years, Done

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• I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.

  Britney Spears

  Fear, Legends, Next

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

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• Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And then you walk a little, shouting the whole time. And so on. Your adrenaline quickly overwhelms your conditioning.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Thinking, Three, Four

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• I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

  Gwen Stefani

  Forever, Realistic, Backup

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• Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

  Barbra Streisand

  Process

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• When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.

  Marlo Thomas

  Mother, Father, Sibling

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• For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who.' From 1982 to 1989 I felt 'The Who' did not exist. I let the band go, in my heart. However, Roger Daltrey had other ideas. He would not let go.

  Pete Townshend

  Letting Go, Heart, Ideas

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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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• I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.

  Dionne Warwick

  Song, Pleasure, Regard

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• I just loved performing. It just made me feel alive. It's scary, but that's part of it. I think it's important to have that extra adrenaline. It gives you that extra zing.

  Emma Watson

  Thinking, Giving, Scary

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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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• I've spent a lot of time in tiny venues in the way that I got my record deal and got my name out there just performing live. I was literally performing my songs in all kinds of different ways with different guitarists, and I didn't have an album up online or anything. It's been a lot of work; it definitely hasn't been a sudden explosion into fame.

  Florence Welch

  Song, Names, Different

  "Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine: An EW Q&a". Interview with Leah Greenblatt, ew.com. September 13, 2010.

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• If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

  Lawrence Welk

  Planning, Audience, Ifs

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• If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That's why Twitter is performing so well on mobile.

  Fred Wilson

  Way, Scales, Units

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• I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that.

  Norman Wisdom

  Simple, Long, Goes On

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

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• I've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on 'The Tonight Show.' There's truly nothing like it; it's intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual.

  Steven Wright

  Years, Three, Looks

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• He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and that he was committing a profanation. Moreover, he did not feel one passionate desire for this ravishing woman, whose form he felt against his heart. He was lost in love.

  Victor Hugo

  Religious, Lost Love, Heart

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• He stared up at the stars, and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity. He imagined he could see the very faces of the stars; pale, they were, and smiling gently, as if they had spent so much time above the world, watching the scrambling and the joy and the pain of the people below them, that they could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stars, Pain, People

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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• The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.

  Adam Smith

  Stupid, Exercise, Simple

  Adam Smith (2017). “The Wealth of Nations (illustrated)”, p.590, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.

  Nancy Pearl

  Real, People, Miracle

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