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• Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won’t continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.

  Takeru Kobayashi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fighters, Perform, Performance, Pressure

• I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won’t ever happen again.

  Christopher Darden

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  Tags in Hurt, Happen, Performance

• I’ve worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I’ve seen their work on the screen and I’ve been like, Wow, that was a really great performance. Because there are a lot of elements with film. It’s not like stage. It’s not a kind of performance art anymore; it’s a highly tuned kind of collaboration – a symphony.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Topics in Art, Work

  Tags in Performance, Working

• After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don’t want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

  Christian Slater

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  Tags in Heart, After, Performance

• Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed.

  William Vickrey

  Topics in Experience, Job

  Tags in Performance

• Let your performance do the thinking.

  Charlotte Bronte

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  Tags in Thinking, Performance

• The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

  Edward Gibbon

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  Tags in Author, Performance

• Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That’s how he finds that he can bear anything.

  William Faulkner

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  Tags in Man, Performance

• I know I’m never as good or bad as one single performance. I’ve never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I’ve always been able to leave the game at the arena.

  Charles Barkley

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  Tags in Single, Game, Performance

• My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

  Eli Wallach

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  Tags in Self, Western, Performance

• Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy’s experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don’t take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual – scene to scene.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Person, Performance

• The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.

  Will Wright

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  Tags in Games, Performance, Advantage

• I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.

  Will Oldham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Write, Recorded, Song, Performance

• I didn’t think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

  Elliott Smith

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  Tags in Self, Think, Performance, Oscars

• And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.

  Elvis Costello

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Group, Performance, Arrangement

• To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

  Emil Zatopek

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  Tags in Performance, Self, Interesting

• I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside.

  Eric Bana

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  Tags in Performance

• You can lose in cinema too if you don’t put on a good performance.

  Eric Cantona

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  Tags in Cinema, Performance

• Dance every performance as if it were your last.

  Erik Bruhn

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  Tags in Dance, Performance

• I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It’s a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it’s a great date or something that’s just hugely romantic.

  Renee Fleming

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  Tags in Hugely, Performance, Glamorous