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• If I had to give up performing, it wouldn't bother me too much. But I couldn't live without my writing. I put all my feelings, my very soul, into my writing. I tell the world in my songs things I wouldn't even tell my husband.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Giving Up, Husband

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• Why don't we see any questions from the press? Why don't we see anybody from the media saying, 'Mr. President, it's illegal, you started it, you are performing a program that is collecting all of the phone records from all Americans, it's been declared illegal from the second highest court in the land, why don't you stop?'

  Rand Paul

  Phones, Media, Land

  "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.

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• Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me.

  Steve Martin

  Half, Way, Comedy

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• I love my life, and I love the people that I'm connected to and I love my family and I love what I do, I'm passionate about performing and being onstage. That and meditating and hugging a dog are the only three times I am absolutely sure I will never get a depressed moment. So if I could go from dog-hugging to meditation to being onstage, I'd be good.

  Rick Springfield

  Dog, People, Love Of My Life

  "Rick Springfield On The Vietnam War: "I Killed Somebody"". "George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight", www.cbc.ca.

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• I've always been a lover of classical music ever since I was an early teenager I suppose. I remember the very first piece of classical music that grabbed me was I bought an LP of Daniel Barenboim performing Mozart's piano concertos and I would have been about 14 or 15 at the time and I remember I played it over and over again.

  George Brandis

  Teenager, Piano, Pieces

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I think it's very, very important that people outside the capital cities, not just Sydney and Melbourne but also Brisbane Perth Adelaide and so on, have the greatest access to the best cultural experiences they can in both the performing arts and the visual arts.

  George Brandis

  Art, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I'd spent ten years in London, writing and performing my own comedy shows. They gave me the Cheers [scenes], and I thought it was the springboard for chatting about the show, because in England, that's what you do. So I walk in, and I'm looking around, and Jimmy Burrows said, "What are you looking at? You're not here to have a conversation; you're here to audition."

  Shelley Long

  Cheer, Writing, Years

  Source: www.gq.com

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• If you're performing for the right reasons, it's glorious.

  Dion DiMucci

  Reason, Glorious, Ifs

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• I love performing, signing autographs, taking 'selfies' with the fans. This is just what I feel like I was born to do.

  Juicy J

  Fans, Born, Signing

  Source: www.independentphilly.com

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• If you work at an insurance company that sells premiums you wouldn't even sell to your mother, how happy would you feel to work there? It's going to eat you up. It might last a few years, but it doesn't attract the best people, and it certainly doesn't create the energy and engagement you need to be a long-term performing company.

  Paul Polman

  Mother, Years, Long

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• I have enjoyed teaching most of the times that I have done it. I also like being by myself and making things and performing, so much that if I hadn't needed an income I probably wouldn't have done much teaching. Having said that, I think working with others, having to come up with art projects, and learning how to present your ideas in a clear way, to adults and/or kids is always interesting and rewarding.

  Ed Askew

  Art, Teaching, Kids

  Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.

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• I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  God, Water, Darkness

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• Performing is one of the best feelings I know!

  Gloria Estefan

  Feelings, Knows

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• Each time thou wishest to decide upon performing some enterprise, raise the eyes to heaven, pray God to bless thy project; if thou canst make that prayer, accomplish thy work.

  Leopold Schefer

  Prayer, Eye, Decide Upon

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• The old Atlantean sciences from the tribe of enlightenment, of which there are only a few remnants and chards left in this world, were medicine, law, computers, and the performing arts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Law, Medicine

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• A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his conscience provided, of course, that he possesses one. As a performing artist, he will pride himself on timing and other techniques designed to keep the audience in his control ... his respect for genuine folklore reminds him that these changes, and these techniques, may give the audience a false picture of folk music.

  Sam Hinton

  Song, Pride, Artist

  "The Singer of Folk Songs and His Conscience". Book by Sam Hinton, Western Folklore 14:3, p. 170 - 173, July 1955.

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• Musically I try to connect a common bridge between such exhilarating feelings as performing at the Acropolis, to the emotions each and every one of us feel everyday. In the end, a good melody will always stand the test of time.

  Bradley Joseph

  Bridges, Exhilarating Feeling, Feelings

  Interview with Fred Wheeler, Indie Journal, 2002.

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• In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

  Lynda Obst

  Jobs, Work, Way

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• There will never be a successful person who, before performing a task, has doubts. Negative thoughts arise from recognizing that somewhere along the line your level of commitment has dropped below 100 percent. The winner will always be the person with the fewest doubts.

  Nicole Haislett

  Success, Commitment, Doubt

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• I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Teacher, Silly, Voice

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• I'm just as comfortable performing solo with just my acoustic guitar and vocal as I am with a band. The main thing for me is that the performance remain rooted in the words and voice, that there be no place to hide.

  Michael Gira

  Guitar, Voice, Band

  Interview with Michael Idov, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2005.

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• Performing an exorcism was like changing your oil. It's a drag, but necessary.

  Keanu Reeves

  Oil, Exorcism, Drag

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When you're performing, you're creating a moment.

  Erykah Badu

  Creating, Moments

  "The Survivors: Erykah Badu". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. November 3, 2011.

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• There's only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.

  Billy Crystal

  Nice, Kids, Thinking

  "Billy Crystal And John Goodman: How We Got Here". Interview with Adam B. Vary, www.buzzfeed.com. June 14, 2013.

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• I was always drawn to performing, but I never thought I could. I have no idea what I wanted to do outside of the old cowboy-or-fireman. When I was in college, I got serious about acting. I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.

  Billy Crystal

  Art, Eye, College

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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