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“My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.”

Knows Years Made Stills Play School Night Lines Five Directors Performances Disaster Opening Embarrassed Juniors Junior Year Opening Night

Author:Katie Leclerc

“I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.”

Self Actors Stuff My Own Conscious Performances Self Conscious

Author:Matthew Lewis

“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

“We must recognise that in a globalised world, we cannot remain insulated from external developments. India's trade performance in the current year has been robust, surpassing pre-crisis export levels and pre-crisis export growth trends. We have diversified our export baskets and our export destinations.”

World Years Has Beens Growth Levels Development Performances India Crisis Trade Currents Destination Trends Recognise Baskets Robust Surpassing

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.”

Performances Decades Officials Norm Private Life Journalistic Public Officials

Author:Roger Mudd

“Music is about the performance.”

Music Is Performances

Author:Vanessa Mae

“I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company.”

Thinking Needs Company Discipline Models Performances Innovation Capture Metrics Typology

Author:Indra Nooyi

“As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.”

Process Hours Performances

Author:Keith Olbermann

“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

“There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.”

Grace Performances Tension Gymnastics Eros Athleticism

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“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.”

Writing Lasts Song Performances

Author:Will Oldham

“But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.”

Shows Kids School Parent Clear Students Research Connections Performances Priorities Nutrition

Author:Jared Polis

“Motion capture is exactly what it says: it's physical moves, whereas performance capture is the entire performance - including your facial performance. If you're doing, say, martial arts for a video game, that is motion capture. This is basically another way of recording an actor's performance: audio, facial and physical.”

Ifs Way Art Moving Actors Games Performances Including Video Martial Arts Capture Another Way Facial Audio

Author:Andy Serkis

“The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.”

Giving Seems Actors Depends Performances

Author:Bela Lugosi

“Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.”

America Nations Greater Promise Office Commitment Optimism Performances Currents Ran Contrast Platforms Abandonment Pledge Brighter Brighter Days

Author:David Limbaugh

“I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed.”

Ifs Way Would Be Needed Performances Casts Disappointed

Author:Trevor Nunn

“I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.”

Knows Done Facts School Remember Company Saws Happened Drama Performances Cheeks You Like It

Author:David Oyelowo

“I'm a stage actor, and we never get to see our performances.”

Actors Stage Performances Stage Actors

Author:Clarke Peters

“The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.”

Sides Dark Moon Performances Excellence Flash Dark Side Superb

Author:Lloyd Grossman

“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.”

Reality School Havens Dad High School Performances My Dad Juniors Back To Reality

Author:Candace Parker

“Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.”

Thinking Needs Children Remember Actors Directors Performances Tricks Child Actors

Author:Asia Argento

“I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving expert performance and sustaining growth in a way that is more sound and more permanent.”

Thinking Way Sound Growth Gains Labor Performances Bases Reform Combination Permanent Improving Unemployment Reducing Adjustment Sustaining

Author:Lucas Papademos

“I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.”

World Lasts Race Performances Finished Heat Championship Unbelievable

Author:Oscar Pistorius

“I was always very dramatic - my family would probably use the word 'dramatic' - as a child; always putting on performances, making everyone come watch, and pay to watch. I was very business-savvy as a child.”

Children Use Pay Watches My Family Performances Dramatic Savvy

Author:Margot Robbie

“But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Country Play Able Careers Rocks Fronts Musician Performances Jazz Lasting Songwriting Punk Songwriters Groundwork

Author:Amy Ray

“Some of Jimmy Stewart's performance in 'It's A Wonderful Life' is some of the most disturbing performance he ever did, when he falls apart and when he breaks down.”

Life Is Fall Break Wonderful Performances Breaking Down Falling Apart Disturbing Jimmy Wonderful Life It's A Wonderful Life Jimmy Stewart

Author:David O. Russell

“In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue.”

Years Different Views Focus Intellectual Performances Strategy Constant Point Of View Dialogue Developing Executives Engaging Opposing Different Points Of View

Author:Jeff Raikes

“Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would have to be that the companies are stronger financially, that they took market share, and they are on a very steady footing in terms of their performance.”

Wells Term Company Share Performances Stronger Determine Steady Criteria Mergers

Author:Kevin B. Rollins

“I don't want to feel like I'm stuck doing one-stock performances.”

Want Feels Performances Stuck

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“I would love to document the Roots; I think they have an interesting story. I have a curiosity about them. Their musicality and their live performances I think would be great, and I have a feeling that there are stories behind each one of them.”

Thinking Stories Feelings Would Be Interesting Behinds Roots Performances Curiosity Documents Live Performance Interesting Stories Musicality

Author:Michael Rapaport

“The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.”

Persons Spirit Responsibility Direct Performances Composer Conductor Interpreting

Book:On Conducting

Source: On Conducting

“There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance.”

People Moments Behinds Performances Exciting Guitar Rhythm That Moment Solo Rawness

Author:Chad Smith

“I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.”

Way Company Performances Theatre My Way

Author:Devon Sawa

“Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.”

Actors Involved Rain Performances

Author:Gloria Stuart

“We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.”

Giving Doe Performances Germany Great Performance

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figure than when Tchaikovsky led the first performances in 1891. Virtually every major artist has performed there. There is simply no place like it. The first time I stepped foot in Carnegie Hall was in 1964.”

World Firsts Artist Feet Figures Majors First Time Performances Corners Halls Concerts Avenues Carnegie Carnegie Hall Tchaikovsky

Book:Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry

Source: Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry

“Over the years it has been my privilege to lead performances with Saint Louis, the National Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and so many other wonderful organizations.”

Years Has Beens Wonderful Performances Organization Saint Privilege Orchestra Symphony Cleveland

Book:Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry

Source: Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry

“The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of performances, so we don't have a particular pattern that we can follow. For a conductor, it is a little bit worse because we have to allow for traveling.”

Littles Different Night Fall Bits Week Particular Normal Little Bit Musician Performances Patterns Schedules Rehearsal Day And Night Conductor Different Day

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.”

Years Whole School Happened Performances Nine Agents Ballet Auditions Visiting Nine Years

Author:Sarah Sutton

“Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court.”

Performances Court Gender Sexuality Don't Change

Author:Sheryl Swoopes

“People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.”

People Ifs Feelings Individual Performances Athlete

Author:Daley Thompson

“Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.”

Jobs Past Given Effort Worry Support Performances Crisis Oil Reasonable Executives Afghanistan Spills Oil Spill

Author:Jim Talent

“The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.”

Should Performances Awards Ensemble Emmys

Author:Jeffrey Tambor

“If people want to criticize a performance, that I understand. I think that's important.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Important Performances Criticize

Author:Juno Temple

“Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.”

World Character Shows Principles Performances Clean Athlete Outstanding Phenomenal Cardinals Greatest Athlete Clean Living

Book:The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography

Source: The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography

“I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.”

Enough Dream Impossible Stage Lucky Performances Excited Actresses Really Great Juice Trust Me Get Real Pipe Great Performance Impossible Dream Pipe Dreams

Author:Olivia Thirlby

“I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celebrity, but at the end of the day I want to empower my audience and say, 'Hey, I am just like you.”

Want Trying Humans Ends Audience Fans Like You Performances Hey Empowering The End Of The Day Hanging Out

Author:Kate Voegele

“For me, some of the happiest moments on a live-action film are the awkward moments. One actor says something to another actor. They didn't expect that performance from that actor; that affects their return performance.”

Moments Action Film Actors Return Performances Awkward Action Films

Author:Gore Verbinski

“I mean, there's definitely a difference between film and live performances or live television. But at the same time, it's just performing. No matter what, it's performing.”

Mean Matter Film Differences Television Performances No Matter What Performing Live Performance Live Television

Author:Kenny Wormald

“Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways.”

Way I Can Different Might Able Film Form Stage Paper Weakness Advantage Performances Communicate Mediums Different Ways Stage Performance

Author:Lawrence Wright

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