Performing Quotes - Page 29

• I grew up performing in theatre.

  Valorie Curry

  Theatre, Grew Up, Grew

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• My background was in performing originally.

  Cy Coleman

  Backgrounds

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• I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn’t really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.

  Rainey Qualley

  Mom, Art, Two

  "Andie MacDowell and Rainey Qualley Prove Mighty Fine". Interview with Alex Simon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I don’t even know at what age I started, because it’s always been there. Performing … creating … it’s in my DNA.

  Janelle Monae

  Dna, Creating, Age

  "Hot Tracks: Janelle Monáe". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. September 2012.

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• Every American was to become a performing self.

  Susan Cain

  Self

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.21, Broadway Books

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• I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

  Black Francis

  Song, Boston, Age

  "Black Francis can't tell Rock Chickens from EGGS" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. July 30, 2009.

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• It's fun when you're winning and performing well, but it's also hard because now you get older, you got responsibilities.

  Rau'shee Warren

  Fun, Responsibility, Winning

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• I'm a reactor. I can react to crowds, performing situations.

  Rick Nielsen

  Crowds, Situation, I Can

  "Cheap Trick". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. March 12, 1997.

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• I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can't tell you any line from any play I've ever done.

  Bill Nighy

  Memories, Play, Done

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.

  Misty Copeland

  Dancer, Ballet, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Honestly, live is my favorite way of performing. Every show is a completely different energy. With recording, it's not really as organic as it can be. But I feel like I'm a lot more fluid, and I can be a little bit more aggressive.

  Sharon Van Etten

  Energy, Different, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you've had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you're a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.

  Bill Nighy

  Zero, America, People

  "Bill Nighy Stops the Clock". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 6, 2013.

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• I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

  Yelawolf

  Kind

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• God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which they had never the opportunity of performing.

  Joseph Addison

  Opportunity, Flames, Trials

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• Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existence.

  Dalai Lama

  Iron, Negative, Rust

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.282, Penguin Books India

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• People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  People, Abuse, Family And Friends

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• Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer have anything to say and take to performing instead of stating.

  Clement Greenberg

  Artist, Recognition, Composer

  Clement Greenberg (1961). “Hofmann: twelve color plates, twenty-one black and white illustrations”

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• Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.

  Arne Duncan

  Children, Want, Way

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• I love it. It's all good to me. Whether I'm performing in New York, L.A., Columbus or Des Moines, I give 110 percent every night.

  Bret Michaels

  New York, Night, Giving

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• When you have been in TV and performing for as long as I have, you realise that you probably entertain in your sleep too... as for my catch phrase, I didn't actually say so much 'Can you see what it is yet?

  Rolf Harris

  Sleep, Long, Tvs

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• All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Successful, Men, Thinking

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.25, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Don't focus on the wins and losses... focus your efforts on performing to your full potential.

  Michael Chandler

  Loss, Winning, Mma

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• I can't focus on any one day, because I always have to be ready for the next. It's fun but frenetic - like living in a circus that never stops performing.

  Josh Lieb

  Fun, Focus, One Day

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Somewhere in university, I realized that I hadn't been to classes in months, and I'd get tired to the point of narcolepsy doing anything other than some form of performing, directing, writing, or acting.

  William Shatner

  Writing, Tired, Class

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.

  Theophilus London

  New York, Years, Age

  "Theophilus London, Hip-Hop’s Newest Name (and What a Name!)". Interview with Michael Pollock, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 5, 2011.

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