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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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  Tags in Morning, Performance, Experiment

• 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

• I don’t see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it’s unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

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  Tags in Music, Think, Performance

• 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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• 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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• 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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• I love drag queens… they perform me better than I ever could myself.

  Taylor Dane

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• My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

  Eli Wallach

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• 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

• When I’m performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I’m that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn’t wait to be smokin’ a cigarette, you know?

  Etta James

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

  Eric Cantona

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• 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

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  Tags in Performance, Working

• 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

• 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

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  Tags in Performance, Skill

• A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players’ performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

  Gary Alexander Neville

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• 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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• On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven’t arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

  Candace Parker

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• 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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• Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.

  Phil Donahue

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• 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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