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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

“Running back-to-back races requires a certain tactical prudence. Going too hard in any one race might jeopardize your performance in another. Maintaining proper hydration and caloric equilibrium also becomes increasingly critical.”

Hard Might Running Certain Race Performances Critical Maintaining Prudence Equilibrium Tactical Running Back Jeopardize Hydration

Author:Dean Karnazes

“In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded....He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance. He has begun a prelude to larger themes. He is the herald to a new era. As a man he is the precursor of a fresh type. He is a factor in the heroic and spiritual evolution of the human being. If Poetry has passed him by, Philosophy will take note of him.”

“If you're playing a fictional character, you can create a character, you can sort of take certain liberties. And when you're playing a real person who's actually standing there watching you, you know, it's - you do feel a weight. You know, you feel an obligation to not only be - to give the best performance that you can, but to make sure that you represent this person.”

Ifs Knows Giving Feels Persons Real Character Certain Liberty Standing Performances Weight Obligation Real Person Standing There Fictional Character Best Performance

Author:Donnie Wahlberg

“You don't know being a performer what kind of performance you're going to give. You know you can give a certain quality of performance, but as I grow older I'm much more content in my own skin because when I come offstage, I have a balance in my life.”

Knows Giving Kind Certain Grows My Own Quality Balance Skins Performances Performers

Author:Elton John

“I was never able to analyze my own performance that way I can now. I've realized why certain actors work. I think I'm very in control of what I do in there now. I know how to listen, how to make it real and how not to go to jokes, but to go for a sense of reality.”

Thinking Knows Way I Can Real Reality Able Certain Actors My Own Know How Jokes Performances

Author:Steve Dildarian

“All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.”

Kind Certain Practice Performances All Kinds Register Solemnity

Author:Theaster Gates

“Some entrepreneurs have a bad habit of taking personal credit for all improvements and innovations at their startups. If you penalize or ignore employee initiatives, you can be certain that they won't be repeated, and motivation for more conventional performance will suffer.”

Ifs Motivation Certain Suffering Habit Performances Innovation Entrepreneur Credit Improvement Employee Initiative Conventional Bad Habits

Author:Martin Zwilling

“You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.”

Ifs I Can Pain Purpose Artist Certain Can Do Audience Our Lives Stage Dying Fronts Performances Difficulty Mirrors You Can Do It I Can Do This

Author:Marina Abramovic

“But when there were certain moments or scenes that required a very specific nuance or performance, I myself would act out the scene or the sequence and that would inspire the actors. Of course, I can't really express emotions on camera, but I was very active in showing a certain action or a blocking for an actor. I would also participate in certain stunts myself and because of that, I would get bruises or cuts on my knees and elbows.”

I Can Moments Action Certain Courses Actors Emotion Cutting Inspire Scene Performances Cameras Active Block Knees Sequence Nuance Elbows Bruises

Author:Kim Jee-woon

“I just like surprising people. I never want to get to a place where people see that I am in a movie and they go see the movie and they expect a certain performance one way or the other. That is just inherently boring to me.”

People Way Want Certain Performances Boring One Way Surprising

Author:John C. Reilly

“What I'm trying to do is bring certain of those engineering values into the design process, such that when you think about form you're already incorporating those performance criteria in the process of the generation of forms.”

Thinking Trying Form Certain Values Process Generations Design Performances Engineering Criteria Incorporating Design Process

Author:Neri Oxman

“You know that this vignette and that vignette belong side by side, you know that a certain turn of phrase you've been saving will probably work best within a given section of the narrative. As in a jazz performance, writing lives or dies by what's produced in that moment. But that moment is attended by long preparation.”

Knows Writing Long Moments Certain Dies Turns Given Sides Performances Jazz Saving Preparation Narrative Phrases That Moment Sections Writing Life Vignettes

Author:Teju Cole

“If you emote in your performances, people feel connected to you as an emotional person, because that's how we communicate. That doesn't mean people know you. At a certain point, I think you have to just be your own self.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Mean Persons Self Certain Emotional Performances Communicate Connected Mean People Emote Emotional Person

Author:Patricia Arquette

“Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.”

Spirit Certain Talent Circumstances Demand Performances Deeds Stupidity Wicked Insensitivity

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'”

Knows Looks Enough Seems Certain Careers Performances Regard Good Enough Not Good Enough

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and I thought it was a great idea. I felt like it would be good to record over a certain period of time and then take the best performances of that collection of recordings. It appealed to me that it wasn't going to be from just one location.”

Ideas Would Be Night Certain Felt Records Periods Tools Performances Be Good Managers Just One Collections Every Night Location Great Idea Best Performance Rigs

Author:Josh Turner

“I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.”

World Seems Certain Actors My Own Decision Performances Cameras Scripts Places In The World

Book:This is Orson Welles

Source: This is Orson Welles

“Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.”

Source: Four Centuries of Ballet: Fifty Masterworks

“Golf is the only-est sport. You're completely alone with every conceivable opportunity to defeat yourself. Golf brings out your assets and liabilities as a person. The longer you play, the more certain you are that a man's performance is the outward manifestation of who, in his heart, he really thinks he is.”

Thinking Men Heart Persons Play Certain Opportunity Sports Performances Golf Defeat Manifestation Assets Liability Playing Golf Assets And Liabilities

Author:Hale Irwin

“From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today.”

Today Certain Known Greater Military Performances Speed Flight Terrific Ufo Aircraft

Author:Frank Herman Schofield

“The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the living voice of Catholic Truth, the oft-sounded expression of it. For that very reason the true Church of Christ, even as she shows great zeal to guard inviolate those forms of divine worship - since they are hallowed and are not to be changed - sometimes grants or permits something novel in the performance of them in certain instances. This she does especially when they are in conformity with their venerable antiquity.”

“I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did”

People Ifs World Age Moving Used Certain Realizing Watches Six Performances Moved Seven Eight

Author:Alan Arkin

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