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“Losing ... really does say something about who you are. Among other things it measures are: do you blame others, or do you own the loss? Do you analyze your failure, or just complain about bad luck? If you're willing to examine failure, and to look not just at your outward physical performance, but your internal workings, too, losing can be valuable. How you behave in those moments can perhaps be more self-defining than winning could ever be. Sometimes losing shows you for who you really are.”

Ifs Looks Doe Self Sometimes Moments Shows Winning Loss Willing Losing Performances Blame Luck Who You Are Valuable Complaining Behave Internals Defining Bad Luck

Author:Lance Armstrong

“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.”

Giving Persons Sometimes Shows Action Personality Performances Importance Give Me Borders Deaf Interpreting Interpreter

Author:Jack Jason

“As we at all times criticise the Premier for his management of home affairs, call Mr Butler a fool for his Budget, find fault with Beecham's conducting, or Gielgud's performance, can we not, sometimes, say that our cricketers are not quite so brilliant as usual?”

Sometimes Home Fool Performances Management Faults Affair Brilliant All Time Budgets Usual Conducting Butlers Cricketers Criticise

Author:Margaret Hughes

“I've noticed a lot of people talking about the wealth of roles for powerful women in television lately. And when I look around the room at the women here and I think about the performances that I've watched this year, what I see actually are women who are sometimes powerful and sometimes not. Sometimes sexy and sometimes not. Sometimes honourable and sometimes not. And what I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary and it's what turning me on.”

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Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.”

Sometimes History Performances Glorious Unpredictable Heredity

Book:Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

“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

“Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.”

Sometimes Individual Music Support Activity Performances Jazz Flying Backgrounds Artistic Providing Innovative Participants Repetitive Time Flies Flying Free

Book:Composing a Life

Source: Composing a Life

“I'm certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the scene. I sort of come in and out of it. It can be to the detriment of my performance sometimes!”

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Author:Matthew Rhys

“I learned early on that it's heartbreaking to - there's the editor that comes in, and then they have to craft the movie together, and sometimes you give a whole performance that's just been cut up, and maybe it's better for it, absolutely, but you still have to deal with the loss of that.”

Giving Stills Sometimes Whole Together Loss Deals Cutting Performances Crafts Editors Heartbreaking

Author:Tavis Smiley

“I prefer to have playback, but sometimes, you can't have that under most circumstances. First, it is expensive because you need a playback operator and secondly, it threatens a lot of directors. I only watch my performance. I see what is necessary for me so that I can see it right at the moment and I can fix it. That appeals to me a great deal.”

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Author:James Cromwell

“Once a film is shot, the thing that mostly happens is that I go see all the things I would have fixed in my performance and sometimes, very rarely, I see a moment that surprise me and I go, "Oh, that's not bad. That was nice."”

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Author:James Cromwell

“I like to think in camera, but at the last minute the most important thing is that there is something happening between the actors. But good actors can have a lot of scenes going around them but sometimes it sort of helps the performance because it takes their mind off of who they are supposed to be.”

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Author:Audrey Tautou

“In my case, performance is part of the medium. Sometimes I feel that it's my main medium, and that the presentation of my poems on the page is secondary.”

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Author:James Arthur

“Whenever I do a performance I always hope it is the best day of my life. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.”

Sometimes Happens Performances

Author:Hiromi

“Everybody reacts differently. For me defeat lingers around for different time periods. I can dwell on some for five minutes or sometimes I can still be thinking about it a week later. It all comes down to experience. You need to reflect on your mistakes and move on. Luckily you always get the opportunity to turn things around in your next performance.”

Thinking Needs Stills I Can Different Sometimes Moving Turns Next Opportunity Mistake Five Week Minutes Periods Performances Defeat Five Minutes Different Times Time Periods

Author:Filo Tiatia

“Sometimes when you're making a film and something happens during a scene that you've just thought of, it can be missed if the wrong lens is on or if you're shooting in the wrong direction but this [performance capture] doesn't miss a thing. So, you might do something that's genius - very rarely, admittedly - but it doesn't miss it.”

Ifs Sometimes Might Happens Film Missing Genius Scene Performances Things Happen Shooting Capture Lenses Wrong Direction

Author:Ray Winstone

“It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.”

Sometimes Matter Trouble Performances Opera Legendary Ovation

Book:Pavarotti, My World

Source: Pavarotti, My World

“Maybe at the core of me, I'm a survivor, but I don't do it on purpose. Sometimes, in acting of course with your performance, some of your own personal character seeps through. My performance goal has always been to perform for the audience. People pay their hard earned money, and so I always desire to give all of myself in every single scene.”

People Giving Sometimes Hard Character Desire Purpose Courses Goal Pay Acting Audience Scene Performances Core Survivor Personal Character

Author:Paula Patton

“It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable”

Feels Sometimes Whole Together Film Performances Driven Working Together Enjoyable Ensemble Film Set

Author:Cillian Murphy

“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.”

People Ifs Way Want Giving Littles Stills Sometimes Chance Movement Fine Performances Give Me Bother Applause

Author:Hilary Hahn

“I guess I cringe, because sometimes I don't even watch my live performances back. When I edit, it's this feeling of seeing my mistakes. It's always a mixture of loving characters, but being the artist that created it and not trying to go too deep in criticizing myself.”

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Author:Kalup Linzy

“I think you've got to take the risks. There's no point playing it safe, because either you'll get bored or the audiences will get bored. Sometimes, you're going to make mistakes, and that's fine, but you have to take the risks. I think Pirates is one of the prime examples of that with Johnny Depp's performance, and part of the reason that people love it so much is that you watch it and go, "Gutsy, really gutsy!"”

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Author:Keira Knightley

“Sometimes when I don't want to cry, I cry. And when I want to I can't. It's subconscious. Like sexual performance.”

Want I Can Sometimes Cry Performances Subconscious

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.”

Sometimes Performances Colleagues Astonishing

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled as they have been during the Bush administration. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance.”

“I was doing experimental noise-based music and I learned a number of things about performance. I was playing small shows - sometimes without a PA - where people couldn't really hear me so I relied a lot on physicality and a sense of discomfort and risk.”

People Sometimes Shows Numbers Risk Performances Noise Discomfort Physicality

Author:Erika M. Anderson

“Sometimes it's a fraught, kind of laden world of performance that I think can be really dubious, but it's also super fun to almost desecrate an instrument that for 500 years has been associated with God.”

Thinking World Years Kind Has Beens Sometimes Fun Performances Instruments Dubious

Author:Tim Hecker

“Sometimes the ensemble 'Eighth Blackbird' will have performances and invite me to be a featured soloist. I think that is what they call it in that world-"featured soloist."”

Thinking World Sometimes Performances Invites

Author:Will Oldham

“In a sense, I like to think of the live performance as something different than the record, not necessarily looking to exactly recreate the record. Sometimes Matt and I just do duets folk-style. Part of the fun of seeing a live show is having it be different from the way that you hear it in your bedroom or wherever you listen to music.”

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Author:Zooey Deschanel

“In the theater, actors are the essential element of the work. In a film, it's a real collaboration - not that theater isn't, because it is - but it's a collaboration to such an extent that you can give a performance in film that sometimes you look at and you go, "Well, that's not the performance I was trying to give at all."”

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Author:Karen Allen

“Being the free woman who is sexy and out there is a performance in a way, and being the stay-at-home mom and wife is a performance in itself. All of those performances are living and force you to make decisions about who you really are. Women have to put those performances ahead of things sometimes. Men aren't perceived in the same way.”

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Author:Robert Greene

“At times, I've been so absolutely terrified of what I was about to do, whether it was public speaking or performance. Whatever it was, sometimes it had me really, really shaking in my shoes, and I decided that I was going to do it no matter what. And, of course, the critic is there, and afterwards, there's this, "Was it good enough? Was it really all I wanted to say?"”

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Author:Annie Lennox

“Americans are in need of very objective information, and sometimes it's easier to absorb the message through entertainment and through a great story than through the news outlets [where] everything is sensationalized. Not only are you getting information that sort of defies stereotypes, but you're also getting a wonderful story with hopefully good performances.”

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Author:Nia Long

“I also think the more experienced you get as an actor, you start to hear the conversations about why people get cast and not cast, sometimes it's so arbitrary. They decided the moment you walked in the door. And there's nothing you could have done to sway them, even if you'd the greatest performance of all time.”

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Author:Gillian Jacobs

“One of the problems of a director on the set is that we become overwhelmed by all the factors and threads of production, that sometimes we can't focus on our main job, which is steering the performances to create the whole film.”

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Author:Whit Stillman

“Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment, are sometimes wonderful, or wonderful as a moment to be shared between performer and people, but that's it. There might be a strong bond between you and the people, a transformative night, but as a live record it might not translate.”

People Needs Writing Sometimes Moments Might Happens Night Strong Records Wonderful Performances Performers Passages Translate Improvisation Strong Bond

Author:Patti Smith

“When someone says to me, do you do stand-up I say absolutely not. I like to think of it as a theatrical performance. With me the show changes maybe five to ten percent every night. Of course, whatever I see in front of me and sometimes I get on a little run about it and it changes the show. And my delivery is such that people who have seen me many times say Gee, I never heard that before. Actually, they have, but I might have changed it around.”

People Thinking Littles Sometimes Shows Might Running Night Courses Five Heard Fronts Changed Ten Percent Performances Every Night Theatrical Delivery

Author:Don Rickles

“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.”

“I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this character? Sometimes I crack that problem, sometimes I don't.”

Sometimes Character Problem Approach Performances Mathematics Cracks

Author:Brad Pitt

“Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.”

Sometimes Sacrifice Performances Heels High Heels

Author:Gwen Stefani

“Sometimes when I see a bad performance and people still clap... I wonder if they're clapping because they liked what they saw or because they're happy it's over?”

People Ifs Stills Sometimes Wonder Saws Performances Clapping Bad Performance

Author:Kanye West

“Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment, or retaliation. Real love takes time, patience, help, and continuing performances.”

“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

“When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.”

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Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“The type of UFO reports that are most intriguing are close-range sightings of machinelike objects of unconventional nature and unconventional performance characteristics, seen at low altitudes, and sometimes even on the ground. The general public is entirely unaware of the large number of such reports that are coming from credible witnesses... When one starts searching for such cases, their number are quite astonishing.”

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Author:James E. McDonald

“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.”

“So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English”

Thinking Sometimes Performances Not Happy

Author:Sophie Marceau

“I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine”

Want Kind Stills Sometimes Minutes Fine Goes On Performances Nervous Get Real

Author:Alison Lohman

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