Performing Quotes - Page 27

• I love being onstage and I love to perform. To be honest with you, I'm more comfortable performing than I am in an everyday situation, which I can't quite explain.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Love Is, Everyday, Honest

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• Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.

  Darrell Hammond

  Home, Night, Might

  "Darrell Hammond Performed on 'SNL' Same Week He Was Taken From NBC in Straitjacket" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 26, 2011.

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• I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, okay, I’ll try it.

  Lucy Hale

  Ideas, Singing, Trying

  "We Shine the Spotlight on PRETTY LITTLE LIARS Star Lucy Hale". Interview with Tiffany Vogt, www.thetvaddict.com. January 8, 2013.

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• This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don't perform and I am not myself when I am not performing.

  Roy Haynes

  Long, Break

  "A Fireside Chat With Roy Haynes". Interview with Fred Jung, www.allaboutjazz.com. November 29, 2003.

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• I've always said that racing in New York is performing on the big stage.

  Ryan Hall

  New York, Racing, Bigs

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• Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society.

  Steven Johnson

  Criticism, Analysis, Culture

  Steven Johnson (2006). “Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter”, p.9, Penguin

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• Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

  Lara St. John

  Art, Who We Are, Next

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• I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.

  Zola Jesus

  Jesus, Years, Zola

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• The word "theatrical" makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.

  Zola Jesus

  Believe, Singing, Opera

  Interview with Elliott Sharp, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2011.

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• True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.

  Zola Jesus

  Vocabulary, Expression, Pieces

  Interview with Elliott Sharp, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2011.

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• I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

  Ellie Kemper

  Writing, Thinking, Pleasure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I never got nervous performing my own material.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Nervous, Materials, My Own

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• And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn't say no.

  Josie Maran

  Real, Games, Skills

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• Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and range of movement that can afford our sensory organs greater scope in giving us knowledge of the world. Besides augmenting our own possibilities of pleasure , such improved somatic functioning and awareness can give us greater power in performing virtuous acts for the benefit of others, since all action somehow depends on the efficacy of our bodily instrument.

  Richard Shusterman

  Philosophy, Skills, Medicine

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• Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sight, Social Taboos, Mules

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• When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.

  R. Kelly

  Knowing, People, Pressure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would like all my friends, followers, fans and fellow travelers to know that I am fighting cancer and will therefore be taking a break from performing while getting the treatment and cure. I shall of course be continuing to write music - in my world it just has to be part of the therapy - and I fully expect to be back in good shape next year.

  Jon Lord

  Cancer, Writing, Fighting

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• I'm making a case against how money managers are handling customers' money. The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that's not the way wealth is created.

  Michael Lee-Chin

  Way, Being Me, Wealth

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• I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.

  Samantha Morton

  Believe, Thinking, Mind

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• San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, San Francisco, Long

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• I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

  Randy Newman

  Writing, Sitting, Paper

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• And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.

  Nick Offerman

  Sight, Hands, Lost

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• It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip.

  Dan Quayle

  Have A Great Day, Politics, Requirements

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• I'm really not into the educational aspect of performing. It's not in me.

  Dave Lombardo

  Educational, Aspect

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• I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.

  Missi Pyle

  Drama, School, Play

  "Diva Talk: Chatting With Bare Star Missi Pyle". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. January 11, 2013.

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