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• I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I’ve really shared something of myself.

  Idina Menzel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Different, Performance, Hopefully, Myself

• As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don’t feel that.

  Peter Garrett

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• A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Knowledge

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• There are all sorts of reasons why I don’t do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I’ve given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It’s like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.

  Peter Cushing

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Performance

• Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

  Brenda Blethyn

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• The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age.

  Fritz Weaver

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  Tags in Performance, Perfect

• The skills that we have are the actual magic skills – not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don’t get to use again.

  Penn Jillette

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Performance, Skill

• We aren’t people who believe that just because we’re performers our opinions on everything need to be known.

  Penn Jillette

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  Tags in Believe, Performance

• We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn’t rustle in the middle of a performance.

  Penelope Keith

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• When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.

  Peggy Fleming

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  Tags in Performance, Energy

• For example, I wouldn’t hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn’t performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I’ve been sat down before.

  Payne Stewart

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  Tags in World, Game, Performance

• No, we’ve been performing our old songs a little differently each performance.

  Frederick William Schneider III

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  Tags in Differently, Performance

• I like the energy of live performance.

  Sandra Bernhard

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• However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.

  Paul von Hindenburg

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  Tags in Performance, Obstacle

• For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.

  Black Francis

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  Tags in Performance, Artists

• I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That’s what I’ve looked for in my gear development through the years, and today, tele is very precise, very high-performance.

  Paul Parker

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  Tags in Feel, Performance

• We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.

  Franz Liszt

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  Tags in Performance, Advantage, Musician

• Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

  Frank Zappa

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  Tags in Music, Performance, Something

• I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn’t being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive.

  Bill Joy

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• He has all those different aspects to him, so I can more or less decide as a performer how I’m going to deliver a line in a particular scene, or play a particular scene in total.

  Paul Darrow

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