“Trudeau valued performance above image. He Knew he could give me a shovel if there was a mess to clean up, and he kept moving me from one mess to another.” IfsGivingMovingPerformancesGive MeCleanMessShovels Book:My Years as Prime Minister Source: My Years as Prime Minister
“I'm in the action, but I'm not in the action. A lot of the interpreting I do sometimes borders on performance. It gives me a personality and a presence to show the importance of interpreters in the life of a person who is Deaf.” GivingPersonsSometimesShowsActionPersonalityPerformancesImportanceGive MeBordersDeafInterpretingInterpreter Author:Jack Jason
“I'm more relaxed about how the editing process will create a performance and that, in a way, gives me a sense of freedom.” WayGivingProcessPerformancesGive MeEditingRelaxed Author:Ralph Fiennes
“I know that I don't have a perfect performance that I bring to set. I bring ideas to set, and I'm more than willing for those to be affected and be malleable, based on what the other person gives me.” KnowsGivingPersonsIdeasPerfectWillingPerformancesGive MeAffected Author:Rose McIver
“It's fine with me if people want to applaud between movements of a concerto. It doesn't bother me - it's part of performance experience. Sometimes when they applaud if I'm still playing it's not as good, but there's always a way around it. Actually the applause gives me a little rest and chance to stretch, too.” PeopleIfsWayWantGivingLittlesStillsSometimesChanceMovementFinePerformancesGive MeBotherApplause Author:Hilary Hahn
“There's something wrong - the performance, the weather, the set design, the lighting. Something is not working. And so you say, "Give me 10 minutes." When you're first directing, you're terrified. But when you've been in that situation enough times, you know that under pressure, it will come to you.” KnowsGivingFirstsEnoughSituationMinutesDesignPerformancesGive MePressureWeatherTerrifiedLightingEnough TimeUnder Pressure Author:Paul Schrader
“For me, reggae music and its aesthetic are touchstones in both simple and complex ways. Reggae's capacity to be a folk music that is created in a wholly modern context of the recording studio (and sometimes that is the sole performance space) is riddled with the kinds of contradictory impulses that we have come to expect from the post-modern. I revel in this, for it gives me, shall I say, permission.” WayGivingKindSometimesSimpleSpaceModernCapacityPerformancesGive MeComplexesFolksStudiosPostsImpulseAestheticSolePermissionContradictoryReggaeFolk MusicTouchstonesRecording StudioReggae MusicSimple And Complex Author:Kwame Dawes