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“I wasn't into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I'd go to all the rehearsals, and then I'd pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school.”

School Used Ill Unhappy Performing Embarrassed Rehearsal Get Real

Author:Lily Allen

“One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.”

Kind Doe Stills Two Moments Feelings Three Hours Meditation Stage Concepts Passing Passings All Kinds Performing Description Present Moment

Author:Michael Emerson

“I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment.”

Knows Want Persons Moments Shows Unique Performing That Moment Unique Experiences

Author:Sia Furler

“I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.”

Happens Difficult Duty Difficulty Performing Household Resent Chores Household Chores

Author:Kay Boyle

“I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.”

Mother Family Boys Ambition Performing Submission

Author:Pete Townshend

“God-realization is the most difficult state to reach. Let no one fool himself, nor think that someone else can "give" it to him. Whenever I fell into a state of mental stagnation, my Master could do nothing for me. But I never gave up trying to keep in tune with him by cheerfully performing whatever he asked me to do. "I have come to him for God-realization," I reasoned, "and I must listen to his advice."”

Thinking Giving Trying States Difficult Advice Masters Fool Self Realization Realization Performing Tunes Gave Up Stagnation

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the soul while performing dutiful actions. Any individual can reach this supreme actionless state by the renunciation of all fruits of actions: performing all dutiful acts without harbouring in his heart any likes and dislikes, possessing no material desires, and feeling God, not the ego, as the Doer of all actions.”

Source: God Talks With Arjuna

“I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and performing. Now, I probably do 30 or 40 dates a year and I get to relive how I felt at 19 when I played in some really bad bands.”

Years Stills Stars Felt Deals Rocks Band Guitar Performing Going Out Rock Star

Author:David Cassidy

“I love being onstage and I love to perform. To be honest with you, I'm more comfortable performing than I am in an everyday situation, which I can't quite explain.”

I Can Love Is Situation Honest Comfortable Everyday Being Honest Performing

Author:Melanie Chisholm

“Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.”

Home Might Night Difficult Building Performing Anthrax

Author:Darrell Hammond

“I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, okay, I’ll try it.”

Trying Firsts Littles Ideas Acting Grew Grew Up Singing Okay Performing Lap Hesitant Singing And Acting

Author:Lucy Hale

“This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don't perform and I am not myself when I am not performing.”

Long Break Performing

Author:Roy Haynes

“I've always said that racing in New York is performing on the big stage.”

Said Bigs Stage New York Performing Racing

Author:Ryan Hall

“Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society.”

Way Kind Culture Aspect Criticism Pops Analysis Performing Pop Culture Symbolic

Book:Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter

Source: Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter

“Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.”

Should Wells Art Artist Next Music Is Art Is Decades Performing Who We Are Great Art Great Artist Performing Well

Author:Lara St. John

“I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.”

Years Jesus Performing Opera Zola

Author:Zola Jesus

“The word "theatrical" makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.”

Should Believe I Believe Honest Singing Performances Being Honest Performing Opera Theatrical Cringe

Author:Zola Jesus

“True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.”

Knows Hard Problem Pieces Expression Performing Dramatic Rely Opera Vocabulary Guidelines

Author:Zola Jesus

“I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.”

Thinking Writing Certain Pleasure Performing

Author:Ellie Kemper

“I never got nervous performing my own material.”

My Own Materials Nervous Performing

Author:Wiz Khalifa

“And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn't say no.”

Way Real Wanted Film Games Acting Skills Performing Timing

Author:Josie Maran

“Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and range of movement that can afford our sensory organs greater scope in giving us knowledge of the world. Besides augmenting our own possibilities of pleasure , such improved somatic functioning and awareness can give us greater power in performing virtuous acts for the benefit of others, since all action somehow depends on the efficacy of our bodily instrument.”

“When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.”

People Knowing Streets Pressure Accepted Performing No Pressure

Author:R. Kelly

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