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• 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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• 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

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  Tags in Write, Recorded, Song, Performance

• 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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• I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

  Thia Megia

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

  Sheryl Swoopes

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• It’s such a performance to bring stuff into America. It’s a great luxury when I am in England.

  Terence Stamp

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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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  Tags in Self, Performance, Piano

• What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer… the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.

  Earle Brown

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• Let your performance do the thinking.

  Charlotte Bronte

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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

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

  Betty Buckley

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• As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

  Gavin Bryars

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• Dance every performance as if it were your last.

  Erik Bruhn

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• I’ve never been a really big fan of theatre. I don’t know why. It’s so much for effort. It’s much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that’s piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.

  Callan McAuliffe

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• Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

  Judy Holliday

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

  Frederick William Schneider III

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• 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

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  Tags in Person, Performance

• 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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• It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great – everybody working together. Sometimes it didn’t feel like a film set. It wasn’t technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable.

  Cillian Murphy

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