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“Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.”

People Ifs Life Is Certain Actors Emotional Planets Performances Primaries Vocabulary Percentages

Author:Mary McDonnell

“There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.”

People Way Certain Amount Concerned Performances Traditional Associates Visualization

Author:Leo Ornstein

“What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.”

Character Action Political Certain Politics Moral Virtue Produce Citizens Politician Anxiety Performances Fellows Anxious Virtuous Disposition Statesmen Moral Character

Book:Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

“When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.”

Book Certain Literature Performances Artistic Intensity

Book:Raymond Chandler Speaking

Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking

“It's got to be hard to be a band that's trading on your 40-year-old hits, where there's a certain thing that's expected of you. But that's why I admire Bob Dylan's live performances - he's steadfast about mixing up the songs, not just sticking to his greatest hits, and reinterpreting them to the extent that you really can't recognize them until halfway through. It's like, I DARE you to sing along.”

Years Hard Certain Song Band Performances Dare Expected Admire Bob Trading Dylan Halfway Mixing Steadfast Live Performance

Author:Amy Argetsinger

“In the performance of an illocutionary act in the literal utterance of a sentence, the speaker intends to produce a certain effect by means of getting the hearer to recognize his intention to produce that effect; and furthermore, if he is using the words literally, he intends this recognition to be achieved in virtue of the fact that the rules for using the expressions he utters associate the expression with the production of that effect.”

Ifs Mean Facts Certain Virtue Effects Produce Expression Performances Intention Productions Sentences Recognition Speakers Associates Literal Utterance

Author:John Searle

“The assertion fallacy is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the analysis of the meaning of particular words occurring in certain assertions.”

Certain Conditions Particular Speech Performances Analysis Confusing Assertion Fallacy

Author:John Searle

“It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.”

People Hard Certain Energy Fire Capable Performances Endurance Concerts Fury Whips

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“My first performance poem was about how sometimes I was teased for being manly, or a tomboy or whatever. It was saying how just because I looked a certain way and displayed myself a certain way didn't mean that I wasn't also a feminine human...a woman if you will.”

Ifs Way Firsts Humans Mean Sometimes Certain Performances Feminine Manly

Author:Sarah Kay

“Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.”

Men Eye Certain Men And Women Performances Instance Plot Public Eye Melodrama

Author:Gertrude Atherton