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• A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

  Frank Shorter

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• Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

  Betty Buckley

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• The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

  Bela Lugosi

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• Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn’t matter if you’re brown, back or white.

  Geraldo Rivera

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• Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

  Frances Anne Kemble

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• The thing about performance, even if it’s only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

  Sydney Smith

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• All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.

  George Thorogood

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• The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.

  George Shearing

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• If they’ll have me and the show does well, I could do this another two or three years.

  George Peppard

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• Heath Ledger’s performance in ‘The Dark Knight’ quite simply changed the game. He raised the bar not just for actors in superhero films, but young actors everywhere; for me. His performance was dark, anarchic, dizzying, free, and totally, thrillingly, dangerous.

  Tom Hiddleston

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• A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.

  Tom Flores

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• I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

  George Murray

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• I’m now learning how to distinguish when I’m acting and when I’m not acting – offstage as well as onstage.

  George Michael Dolenz Jr.

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• An announcer is only as good as yesterday’s performance.

  Curt Gowdy

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• It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn’t know I could do it but I knew I couldn’t not do it. I quit everything in my life and this was the one thing I couldn’t quit.

  George Lopez

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• Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

  George Ivanovich Gurdjieff

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• So, sometimes, when I’m not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English.

  Sophie Marceau

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• Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• S*xuality and gender don’t change anyone’s performance on the court.

  Sheryl Swoopes

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• With NOAH, you can create some stunning, yet original soundscapes. Therefore, as a performance tool, it really comes into its own because you can make one single performance which has a lot of detail.

  Geoff Downes

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