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“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.”

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Author:Sarah Sutton

“In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.”

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Author:Richard McCabe

“If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It's such a seismic shift really.”

Kind Whole Records Performances Selling Music Business Vortex Live Performance

Author:Arthur Fogel

“[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.”

Whole Emotion Stage Performances Ran Hepburn Stage Performance

Author:Dorothy Parker

“The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all through the inferred lapse of time which the inferred performance of inferred geological processes involves, they have been going on in a manner consistent with the laws of nature as we know them now.”

Knows Has Beens Whole Law Process Performances Foundation Assumption Consistent Laws Of Nature Lapses Inference

Author:William Morris Davis

“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

“The harmony of the nation is promoted and the whole Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social intercourse, and the ties of personal friendship formed between the representatives of its several parts in the performance of their service at this metropolis.”

Whole Together Nations Social Friendship Habit Performances Harmony Unions Ties Mutual Sentiments Representatives Intercourse Mutual Respect Metropolis

Book:John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment.”

Whole Moments Film Music Is Performances Live Performance Live Music

Author:Jonathan Demme

“Theatre is organic, film is not. Theatre you come every day and you work with a group of people and you're are all up for it and you all get to do the whole thing every night, be it two hours or three hours. In film you work in two or three minute bits and it's never in chronological order and then someone takes that away and makes it look like it all happened, or that you gave that performance.”

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Author:Kevin Spacey

“I don't view interviewing as much of a performance. My whole life is in essence a performance but singing and dancing for television is an entirely different thing.”

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Author:Lady Gaga

“I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.”

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Author:Ben Mendelsohn

“It's very difficult to find the time or the money for people to organize rehearsals for some movies. It staggers me how little preparation often goes into these scenes which are difficult and complicated. You think, "God, it's crazy. I've never met this person before and here I am having to work at how to do a whole performance on the set." It was great to have a few days of just talking to Michael [Caine] and Daniel [Barber] and thinking about the characters and the relationship between them before we started shooting.”

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Author:Emily Mortimer

“Having done Spaced, I can't even remember it being that difficult on Spaced, but we know what the end's going to be like. We know why we're putting in this amount of work, or why a shot might be particularly tricky, because we know that what we do is create a whole package. It's the writing, the performances, and the style of camerawork, that's what we're working toward, and we're prepared for that.”

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Author:Simon Pegg

“The performances had to be live. When you play it back, you can see if the hands aren't really doing the right thing, and then the whole magic falls apart.”

Ifs Play Whole Hands Fall Magic Performances Right Thing Falling Apart Doing The Right Thing

Author:Oscar Isaac

“I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think about a pianist who plays a Schubert sonata through his whole lifetime - if you listen to Rubenstein or Horowitz playing their repertoire later in their life, you understand the richness with which they play that music, and how differently they must have played it when they were younger.”

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Author:Philip Glass

“After watching a couple of live performances of bands like Nirvana, I was really excited and inspired by how raw and powerful it was. I wanted to at least aim in that direction with the guitar and do my own version of it. I know it doesn't really sound like that on the other end, but I wanted guitar, heavy rhythms, and singing to be the stamp of the whole thing.”

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Author:Panda Bear

“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

“One time, the homie Venus[-X] read me; we were on the phone and she was like, "Girl, you keep wearing jeans and t-shirts at your shows, but the music doesn't give that." I was like, "You're right, I need to be the person that I am at school, making dance and choreography. I should think about the whole performance." That's when I put the 1 in my name and started dressing for the occasion.”

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Author:Le1f

“Most problems, decisions, and performances are multidimensional, but somehow the results have to be reduced to a few key indicators which are to be institutionally rewarded or penalized... The need to reduce the indicators to a manageable few is based not only on the need to conserve the time (and sanity) of those who assign rewards and penalties, but also to provide those subject to these incentives with some objective indication of what their performance is expected to be and how it will be judged... key indicators can never tell the whole story.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“I was working with actors who were very easy to work with, but I can just imagine how, with all the other decision-making problems that come up along the way, in addition to that, the whole point of what your doing is following performance and character development. You're building your story with those building blocks, and it is not easy. I've only come out with more respect for directors, from this.”

“I love Ron Howard, he's a wonderful director, incredibly prepared. But I have to criticize my performance in that movie. It all took place in one day. My character was having a bad day, so she's having a bad day throughout the whole movie. But this was a comedy, and I think I was too serious, too dense. Yes, I think that describes my failure there.”

Thinking Whole Character Comedy Wonderful Serious One Day Directors Performances Prepared Criticize Bad Day Dense Having A Bad Day

Author:Glenn Close

“We have tons of live performances that we're putting on there. We have music videos. There's a music video for the song called I Am Jesus what is one of the funniest music videos, like we just could not find a place for it in the movie, but it's like crazy funny. And we have the whole video.”

Whole Song Jesus Crazy Performances Video Live Performance

Author:Nicholas Stoller

“My family traveled with a whole community to European festivals. My mum did gymnastics, freak show performances, and swung fire in the circus, so I followed her footsteps.”

Whole Shows Community Fire My Family Performances Freak Mum Traveled Festivals Circus Gymnastics Footsteps

Author:Neon Hitch

“It's what you do when you have Allison Janney.My jaw-dropped at her performance. You think that part is sort of a regular part until she steps into the shoes of the officer. She just filled it with such dimension and by giving her the whole shebang, the whole police thread, I think it was the right choice.”

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Author:Erin Cressida Wilson

“I wrote [Valley of Violence] entirely with James Ransone in mind. I get such a joy out of watching his performance and seeing people watch this. He's so great. The bravado thing and the foolishness, he does them both so well. It's weird because he's so hateable in the movie, but in the end, you're also going, "I feel bad for him." That's hard to do. It's hard to do that to where you're like, "This guy's the worst, but I know why he's the worst, so it's a shame this is happening." That's the whole thing.”

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Author:Ti West

“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

“I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until it has a high level of creativity in writing and performance. In other words, in order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards.”

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Author:Nina Simone

“There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.”

People Ifs Kind Done Whole Records Concepts Performances All Kinds Rhythm Chords

Author:Nina Simone

“The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.”

World Whole Stories Happens Player Team Stage Kissing Approach Negative Performances Competition Cups World Cup National Team

Author:Gary Lineker

“My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. Even when no one is listening (or reading or watching), every outing is a bravura performance, because you as the creator are happy. Perhaps even ecstatic.”

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Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.”

“An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.”

World Whole Motivational Sports Promise Basketball Performances Whole World Coaching Motivational Sports Acres Breaking Promises Keeping Promises Kept Promises Promises That Are Broken

Author:Red Auerbach

“We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy.”

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Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“The whole point of what I do - the monster ball, the music, the performance art aspect of it, I wanna create a space for my fans where they can feel free and they can celebrate because I didn't fit in in high school and I felt like a freak, so I like to create this atmosphere for my fans where they feel like they have a freak in me to hang out with and they don't feel alone.”

Feels Art Whole School Felt Space Fans Fit High School Aspect Performances Balls Monsters Celebrate Atmosphere Hanging Out Freak Performance Art

Author:Lady Gaga

“I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.”

Different Play Whole Kids School Father Stuff Sports Four Dad Performances Being A Dad

Author:Christopher Judge

“Alfonso Cuarón, in the rehearsals, without J.K. Rowling's knowledge, told me that [my character] was, in fact, gay. So I'd been playing a part like a gay man for quite a long time. Until it turned out that I indeed got married to Tonks. I changed my whole performance after that. Just saw it as a phase he went through.”

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Author:David Thewlis

“I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.”

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Author:Judy Holliday

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