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“Performing at my best is important to me and should be to everyone. I am blessed that my dad is a chiropractor. Getting adjusted regularly - along with practicing other good health habits that my mom helped me to establish - are all part of my goal to win in life and on the field.”

“I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it's women who throw their underwear at me when I'm performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet. Maybe I should open a shop.”

Knows Should Feet Fans Land Female Males Expected Performing Shops Treatment Shy Toms Underwear Lingerie Performing Live

Author:Ellie Goulding

“One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the miserable business of performing in Mrs. Smedley's Annual Piano Recital at McKinleyville's First Presbyterian Church.”

Firsts Church Miserable Piano Performing Adulthood Annuals Presbyterians Recitals

Book:A Window Over the Sink

Source: A Window Over the Sink

“If I had to give up performing, it wouldn't bother me too much. But I couldn't live without my writing. I put all my feelings, my very soul, into my writing. I tell the world in my songs things I wouldn't even tell my husband.”

Ifs World Giving Writing Soul Feelings Song Work Too Much Husband Giving Up Bother Performing My Husband

Author:Dolly Parton

“Why don't we see any questions from the press? Why don't we see anybody from the media saying, 'Mr. President, it's illegal, you started it, you are performing a program that is collecting all of the phone records from all Americans, it's been declared illegal from the second highest court in the land, why don't you stop?'”

President Records Land Media Highest Program Court Presses Phones Performing Illegal Collecting Nsa

Author:Rand Paul

“Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me.”

Way Hours Half Comedy Music Is Obligation Performing Format Performing Music

Author:Steve Martin

“I love my life, and I love the people that I'm connected to and I love my family and I love what I do, I'm passionate about performing and being onstage. That and meditating and hugging a dog are the only three times I am absolutely sure I will never get a depressed moment. So if I could go from dog-hugging to meditation to being onstage, I'd be good.”

“I've always been a lover of classical music ever since I was an early teenager I suppose. I remember the very first piece of classical music that grabbed me was I bought an LP of Daniel Barenboim performing Mozart's piano concertos and I would have been about 14 or 15 at the time and I remember I played it over and over again.”

Firsts Has Beens Remember Pieces Lovers Teenager Piano Performing Classical Music

Author:George Brandis

“I think it's very, very important that people outside the capital cities, not just Sydney and Melbourne but also Brisbane Perth Adelaide and so on, have the greatest access to the best cultural experiences they can in both the performing arts and the visual arts.”

People Thinking Art Important Cities Access Performing Visuals Sydney Visual Art Performing Arts Melbourne Adelaide Perth

Author:George Brandis

“I'd spent ten years in London, writing and performing my own comedy shows. They gave me the Cheers [scenes], and I thought it was the springboard for chatting about the show, because in England, that's what you do. So I walk in, and I'm looking around, and Jimmy Burrows said, "What are you looking at? You're not here to have a conversation; you're here to audition."”

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Author:Shelley Long

“If you're performing for the right reasons, it's glorious.”

Ifs Reason Performing Glorious

Author:Dion DiMucci

“I love performing, signing autographs, taking 'selfies' with the fans. This is just what I feel like I was born to do.”

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Author:Juicy J

“If you work at an insurance company that sells premiums you wouldn't even sell to your mother, how happy would you feel to work there? It's going to eat you up. It might last a few years, but it doesn't attract the best people, and it certainly doesn't create the energy and engagement you need to be a long-term performing company.”

People Ifs Needs Feels Years Long Might Lasts Mother Energy Term Company Sells Performing Long Term Engagement Insurance Companies

Author:Paul Polman

“I have enjoyed teaching most of the times that I have done it. I also like being by myself and making things and performing, so much that if I hadn't needed an income I probably wouldn't have done much teaching. Having said that, I think working with others, having to come up with art projects, and learning how to present your ideas in a clear way, to adults and/or kids is always interesting and rewarding.”

Ifs Thinking Way Art Said Ideas Done Kids Interesting Clear Teaching Needed Projects Adults Come Up Income Enjoyed Performing Working With Others Art Projects

Author:Ed Askew

“I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.”

Way God Found Water Darkness Depth My Way Performing Climbs Troubled Waters

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“Performing is one of the best feelings I know!”

Knows Feelings Performing

Author:Gloria Estefan

“Each time thou wishest to decide upon performing some enterprise, raise the eyes to heaven, pray God to bless thy project; if thou canst make that prayer, accomplish thy work.”

Ifs Eye Heaven Prayer Praying Projects Raises Accomplish Performing Enterprise Bless Praying To God Decide Upon

Author:Leopold Schefer

“The old Atlantean sciences from the tribe of enlightenment, of which there are only a few remnants and chards left in this world, were medicine, law, computers, and the performing arts.”

World Art Law Left This World Computer Enlightenment Medicine Ancient Performing Tribes Ancient Egypt Remnants Performing Arts Atlantis

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his conscience provided, of course, that he possesses one. As a performing artist, he will pride himself on timing and other techniques designed to keep the audience in his control ... his respect for genuine folklore reminds him that these changes, and these techniques, may give the audience a false picture of folk music.”

“Musically I try to connect a common bridge between such exhilarating feelings as performing at the Acropolis, to the emotions each and every one of us feel everyday. In the end, a good melody will always stand the test of time.”

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Author:Bradley Joseph

“In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.”

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Author:Lynda Obst

“There will never be a successful person who, before performing a task, has doubts. Negative thoughts arise from recognizing that somewhere along the line your level of commitment has dropped below 100 percent. The winner will always be the person with the fewest doubts.”

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Author:Nicole Haislett

“I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.”

Way Two Voice Creative Teacher Silly Performing Destructive Be Creative Two Ways

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard.”

Hard Sick Performing

Author:Grimes

“I'm just as comfortable performing solo with just my acoustic guitar and vocal as I am with a band. The main thing for me is that the performance remain rooted in the words and voice, that there be no place to hide.”

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Author:Michael Gira

“Performing an exorcism was like changing your oil. It's a drag, but necessary.”

Oil Performing Drag Exorcism

Author:Keanu Reeves

“When you're performing, you're creating a moment.”

Moments Creating Performing

Author:Erykah Badu

“There's only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.”

Thinking Wells Stills Kids Three Nice Fields Balls Performing Three Things

Author:Billy Crystal

“I was always drawn to performing, but I never thought I could. I have no idea what I wanted to do outside of the old cowboy-or-fireman. When I was in college, I got serious about acting. I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.”

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Author:Billy Crystal

“Coincidence is God's way of performing miracles anonymously.”

Way Religion Miracle Performing Coincidence

Book:A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives

Source: A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives

“In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Self America Stuff Rooms Secret Fronts Honesty Performing Monkeys Bizarre

Author:David Wenham

“Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.”

Men Feels Challenges Performing One Man

Author:Alan Cumming

“Performing isn't only about the acrobatics and the high notes: It's staying in the moment, connecting with the audience in an authentic way, and making yourself real to them through the music. I am more than the notes I hit, and that's how I try to approach my life. You can't get it all right all the time, but you can try your best. If you've done that, all that's left is to accept your shortcomings and have the courage to try to overcome them.”

Ifs Way Trying Real Done Moments Left Accepting Audience Approach Overcoming Notes Performing Staying Connecting Shortcomings Try Your Best High Notes Acrobatics

Author:Idina Menzel

“It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.”

Long Parent Acting Company Careers Player Feet Land Stage India England Performing Courtesy Up And Down

Author:Felicity Kendal

“Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.”

People Firsts Real Running School Students High School Organization Theater Originals University Casts Performing Vanderbilt

Author:Nancy Allen

“Tachyon OPC+ is a natural extension of our market-winning Tachyon platform, giving customers a clear path to minimizing the OPC error budget and producing better-performing circuits sooner and faster. Until now, customers have had to deal with a delicate balance of compromises when producing advanced OPC-enabled circuits, including trading accuracy for speed. Tachyon OPC+ breaks free from these compromises.”

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Author:Bill Vaughan

“A lot of people don't realize, when you are acting in a martial arts film, you're not just performing martial arts. You're not just performing martial arts. You're actually acting as much as any other actor.”

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Author:Donnie Yen

“I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.”

Natural Acting Singing Dancing Performing Womb Progression Toddler

Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead

“Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.”

Purpose Song Chance Audience Stage Emotional Singing Starting Performing Connecting Performing On Stage

Author:Naturi Naughton

“I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.”

People Hard Play Wanted Justice Roles Study Stage Performances Wings Excited Actresses Range Performing Rhyme Kim Swagger Dialect Stage Performance Lil Kim

Author:Naturi Naughton

“I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.”

Stuff Television Radio Performing

Author:Adam Carolla

“Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.”

Humans Sometimes Human Beings Forget Audience Conscious Comedian Performing

Author:Jeff Garlin

“I definitely want to continue acting and performing.”

Want Acting Performing Acting And Performing

Author:Sabrina Bryan

“A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.”

World Feels Seems Purpose Acting Majority Missions Block Performing Dry Appropriate Goods Sole Animated

Author:Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

“I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.”

People Kids Imagination Rooms Stage Fronts My Family Active Making Money Performing Living Room

Author:Laura Bell Bundy

“I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.”

Thinking I Can Enjoy Challenges Audience Fronts Materials Singing Performing Learning New

Author:Lea Salonga

“When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.”

Way Feels Persons Different Speak Language Fun Challenges Figures My Way Performing Different Ways Vocabulary One On One

Author:Lea Salonga

“I don't think I would've been performing this long if I didn't love it sincerely to the degree that I do. It's not enough to like it. Dilettantes like things. Professionals love things and I consider myself a professional.”

Ifs Thinking Long Enough Degrees Performing Sincerely Dilettantes

Author:Lea Salonga

“It's not my job to keep myself in the news. My job is to keep performing. If I spend time promoting myself or being concerned about my image, I wouldn't have the energy to do the work that I'm doing. I love what I do and I'm good at it too.”

Ifs Jobs Energy News Concerned Performing End Times Promoting Spend Time

Author:Kalki Koechlin

“My life with the Beatles had become a trap... I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days; if I hadn't said that the Beatles were 'bigger than Jesus' and upset the very Christian Ku Klux Klan, well, Lord, I might still be up there with all the other performing fleas! God bless America. Thank you, Jesus.”

Ifs Wells Said Stills Ends Might Christian America Remember Jesus Music Lord Music Is Bigger Performing Upset Bless Traps Touring God Bless Fleas Ku Klux Klan God Bless America

Author:John Lennon

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