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“Religious extremists want to show us that the only possibility is for us to kill each other, so September 11 is not only heinous murder, it is also global performance. It is also putting an idea into the world, an idea of destruction.”

World Want Ideas Shows Religious Possibility Destruction Performances Murder September September 11 Extremist

Author:Eboo Patel

“When you get to the big leagues, you need to take potential and turn it into performance. You want to be the guy who got the most out of his ability, not the guy who never fulfilled his potential.”

Want Needs Bigs Guy Turns Ability Performances League Fulfilled

Author:Travis Hafner

“I've learned to never expect or require performances that exceed the player's ability. If they just equal their ability, that's what you want.”

Ifs Want Ability Player Equal Performances What You Want I've Learned Exceed Never Expect

Author:Ned Colletti

“People look at me as some bruiser, but I want to entertain people. I want people to applaud. I want to be the cause of people being happy, their emotions changing, to tell me I did a good performance.”

People Want Looks Causes Emotion Performances Look At Me

Author:Mike Tyson

“I like the adrenaline of live performance, whatever that is, appearing in front of an audience of any kind, whether it's one or a hundred or a thousand. It gives you a buzz of adrenaline, its exciting. The thing about that is that you want to make those nerves work for you in terms of an energy that's appropriate for the part and the performance, and not to distract the people who are watching so that they become nervous for you.”

People Want Giving Kind Energy Term Audience Fronts Thousand Hundred Performances Exciting Nervous Appropriate Nerves Appearing Adrenaline Buzz Live Performance

Author:Jared Harris

“So the recordings were these immersive landscapes, and yet, unlike the performances that almost no one would see, I had a sense that these could live forever. I was just starting to get my head around the democratic aspect of art; I didn't want to make rarefied things that were either alienatingly obscure or elite and art-worldy, so a recording that anyone could buy was a great medium.”

Want Art Forever Aspect Performances Democratic Starting Mediums Landscape Elites Obscure Live Forever

Author:Miranda July

“The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.”

Knows Want Giving Character Helping Jobs Actors Lines Emotional Exercise Taste Scene Directors Judgment Performances Statements Taste And Judgment

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“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'm actually looking for a gallery, but the thing is some galleries just want to show the video work and some are just interested in the 2-D work. It has to be a gallery where I can do the 2-D collages, the video, and live performance, where it's not this weird conflict, where it can all move forward.”

Want I Can Shows Moving Can Do Conflict Performances Video Moving Forward Working It Gallery Collages Live Performance

Author:Kalup Linzy

“We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning, of learning and practice it takes to be skilled at even the most fundamental of human activities: eating, walking, talking, reading, and writing. It is tempting to want instant gratification - immediate expert performance and experiential pleasure - but the truth is that this primarily occurs only after considerable amounts of accretion and tuning.”

“I am singing in an operatic voice for the public, to bring something more to Rock and Roll. Because in a Rock and Roll performance, the singer talks to the public whereas in Opera the singer only talks to a character, inside a story. The public sees this as a picture, I want to transport this picture into the room where the public is.”

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Author:Klaus Nomi

“There are some movies that deserve criticism. They want people to know that it's a great dramatic accomplishment and has some great performances in it. But, c'mon. Yes, you will have some fun if you go see 'Snakes on a Plane.' Snakes are biting people - and they're biting them right on screen. There's nothing to review. It's not 'Snakes on the Waterfront.' You don't have snakes going, 'I coulda been a constrictor.' No. Hell no. It's 'Snakes on a Plane.'”

People Ifs Knows Want Fun Hell Deserve Criticism Performances Screens Planes Accomplishment Dramatic Reviews Snakes Biting Great Performance The Waterfront

Author:Samuel L. Jackson

“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

“I think everybody has a moment in their career where you have to test whether it was right or wrong. We've all been there. I've looked back at performances of my own, where only you know if it is something you want to repeat. As long as you know when it's not right that you don't repeat it all the time.”

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Author:Jessie J

“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

“I would always choose the script. You get more creative control that way. But, when you're in a situation like this, where everyone is really funny and you really want to do it, that's the chance of a lifetime, so you want to do it. But, a script has longer legs than a performance and, in the end, is more satisfying. It's harder, but it's more satisfying.”

Way Want Ends Chance Situation Creative Performances Harder Lifetime Scripts Legs Satisfying

Author:Justin Theroux

“As an actor, that's the most important thing. You want to be able to let go and not hold onto anything, so that you can give an honest portrayal and performance.”

Want Giving Important Able Actors Honest Letting Go Performances Important Things Portrayal

Author:James Wolk

“I'm really excited that people are receiving my performance like this. It makes me feel good, because I've been working really hard. And this character [Idi Amin], I worked particularly hard on. But I don't want to get too caught up in it, because first of all, it could lead to a great disappointment. You never know what's going to happen.”

People Knows Want Feels Firsts Hard Character Happens Performances Caught Disappointment Excited Feel Good Receiving Caught Up Working Really Hard

Author:Forest Whitaker

“I have my own little sense of style. As far as image goes today for a new artist, you'll find that fashion is really important. I wouldn't want to show up for a performance in something that is absolutely the opposite of who I am as an artist.”

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Author:Miranda Lambert

“Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'”

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Author:Joan Jett

“Maybe when it comes to my music, or my performances, I'm a little more aggressive because I want everything to be perfect. But not in normal, day-to-day life.”

Want Littles Perfect Normal Performances Aggressive Day To Day Day Life Day To Day Life

Author:Tinie Tempah

“When I go to a show, all I really want is to hear a performance that sounds legitimate, and not just going through the motions. I'm not sure any amount of jumping up and down really persuades me in either direction.”

Want Shows Sound Amount Performances Not Sure Jumping Up And Down

Author:Dan Bejar

“You walk a fine line when you have a performance at a show just as you do with having celebrities attend a show - you never want the attention to be drawn too far away from the clothing.”

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Author:Mia Moretti

“A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have.”

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Author:Karen Abbott

“The performances make you want to get back out there and try something new and challenge yourself.”

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Author:Laura Vandervoort

“I'm most tired after I read, after I've just done a performance, but what I try to do is to fuel and eat a really healthy meal before I perform. I want to have enough energy to talk to that last person.”

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Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I'm a high-performance athlete: I'm running, I'm sprinting, I'm sliding, I'm doing pretty much everything and the last thing I want to worry about is my chest. I want to just worry about playing the sport at the highest level that I can.”

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Author:Serena Williams

“You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.”

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Author:Van Morrison

“Humor is more so. For this, there's definitely moments that I think, "I know this part is really funny and I want to see people laugh." And they do and you go, "Yesss." That's really satisfying, because I'm so proud of the performances in the movie and everybody worked so hard.”

People Thinking Knows Want Hard Moments Laughing Proud Performances Satisfying

Author:Ti West

“As actors, we want to challenges ourselves and put ourselves in different situations to see how we react and deliver a performance.”

Want Different Actors Challenges Situation Performances

Author:Eric Stonestreet

“Turkey wants to be treated by the same standards as other countries. If you compare us to some other newly accepted EU members our performance, especially in terms of the economy, is much better.”

Ifs Want Country Term Economy Members Standards Performances Accepted Treated Compare Other Countries Turkeys

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“I don't want to be an exception, because I was very outspoken about Performance Enhancing Drugs. It would be bad for my reputation if I would have an exemption [for doping test] - I don't want to have a free pass, I want to be like everybody else.”

Ifs Want Would Be Drug Tests Performances Reputation Exception Outspoken Exemption Doping Performance Enhancing Drugs

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“I want to experience a performance on all levels - I want goose bumps and I want to leave the movie or play arguing about something that's unresolved.”

Want Play Levels Performances Arguing Bumps Geese

Author:Julie Taymor

“I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance.”

Thinking Want Teacher Performances

Author:Barack Obama

“Questions like, "Is my suit OK?", or "Is my job performance satisfactory?", are impossible to think about in the absence of a suitable frame of reference. For an interview suit to serve its purpose, it must make you look good relative to other candidates for the job you want. For your job performance to be satisfactory, it must compare favorably with the performance of others who want the same promotion you do. As Charles Darwin saw clearly, much of life is graded on the curve, and conventional economic models completely ignore that fact.”

“[In "The Invisible Woman"] was a different type of performance which was less driven by improv. You always want moments of freshness and newness, but there was less so than I've done before.”

Want Different Done Moments Type Performances Driven Invisible Freshness Newness

Author:Felicity Jones

“When I go onstage, I'm going to work ...I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect with people, whether it's like a romantic song or a happy song.”

People Want Feels Song Emotional Connections Performances Going To Work Emotional Connection

Author:Boy George

“Brasil used to have - and still has, in some ways - a strong culture of showing off. And that's not only in sneakers and streetwear. People like to show how much their sneakers cost, usually by rocking performance models with visible technology, like Nike Shox, adidas Springblade and ASICS Noosa. It's like a status symbol for someone that wants to show to the world they "succeeded in life," no matter how rich they actually are.”

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Author:Ricardo Nunes

“I want to say it to so many people, 'why you have to be so serious?' And I also want people to think 'this kid has really gone crazy' when they see my performance on the stage. Luckily, I am able to achieve all of these.”

People Thinking Want Kids Able Gone Crazy Achieve Stage Serious Performances Gone Crazy

Author:G-Dragon

“What you have to remember, when you get to the level of seeing 10,000 people a night, is that they've all paid to have a performance. I need to make sure that they get their money's worth. I don't want to be going on stage and saying, "I'm just going to try some stuff and if it doesn't work, it doesn't matter," because it does matter.”

People Ifs Want Needs Trying Doe Matter Remember Night Stuff Levels Seeing Stage Performances Paid Working It Remember When

Author:John Bishop

“I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care - that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.”

Thinking Want Giving Mean Persons Hard Shows Care Energy Hard Work Healthy Performances Nervous Great Performance

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“I want to touch the world through my performances on screen but also off screen.”

World Want Performances Screens

Author:Annie Ilonzeh

“Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.”

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Author:John Zorn

“Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.”

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Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“I had paid for my folly and, as a reward, was invited to take part in the nest builder’s performance piece. The script was great. ‘When I bleat here, do you want me to just bleat or to really let go and “bleat, bleat”?’ I asked. ‘I feel like “bleat, bleating,” but if Mother/Destroyer is going to be crawling through the birth canal of concertina wire, I don’t want to steal focus, you know what I mean?”

“My first impulse is not to grab her or kiss her or yell at her. I simple want to touch her cheek, still flushed from the night's performance. I want to cut through the space that separates us, measured in feet-not miles, not continents, not years-and to take a callused finger to her face.”

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Book:If I Stay

Source: If I Stay

“In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.”

Ifs Want Giving Film Actors Acting Concern Performances What You Want

Book:Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making

Source: Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making

“If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.”

Ifs Men Want Looks Character Action Common Watches Judging Performances Great Performance Character Of A Man

Book:Personality Development

Source: Personality Development

“This year I spent two months in Australia, and I did all the training camps in London. It was a really hard winter because I want to give the best performance of my career at the Olympic Games! That is the only title I'm missing and I will do my best to take it!”

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Author:Peter Kauzer

“Opportunity shies away from need, but opportunity is attracted by talent and ability. What you don't want to happen is opportunity to turn cool on you. You don't want to offend opportunity. So the only thing you present to opportunity is ability, performance and skill. Don't present need to opportunity.”

Want Life Needs Happens Motivational Turns Opportunity Ability Talent Skills Performances Talents And Abilities

Author:Jim Rohn

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