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“Performing onstage is all about reacting in a grand way. You're playing an arena of seventeen or eighteen thousand people and it's your job to make sure the person at the back feels as cool as the person all the way in the front. Being on stage is a bit of a façade. You get to walk out there and be the coolest version of yourself that you could possibly have imagined and then you come off stage and you're just like everyone else.”

Author:Zac Efron

“One of the many reasons why I love stand-up so much is when you're performing, you get instant feedback. You know if stuff is working right away.”

Ifs Knows Reason Stuff Reason Why Performing Instant Feedback

Author:Chris Hardwick

“The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.”

Knows Way Country Hands America Lying Duty Our Country Performing Patriotism Serving Patriotic

Book:President Wilson's Addresses

Source: President Wilson's Addresses

“Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.”

Men Firsts Made Action Certain Religion Evil Religious Principles Virtue Failing Failure Performing Righteous Virtuous

Author:Martin Luther

“The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly well." All the true greats have been masters at it.”

Wells Has Beens Art Masters Golf Performing

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“Once you've gotten used to performing, you can't give it up.”

Giving Used Performing

Author:Minnie Pearl

“People are beginning to realize that it's important that we see animals in a natural state - but through film, through video, through documentaries, at wildlife preserves, and through other humanely protected ways, which don't involve... performing for us.”

People Way Important States Film Realizing Natural Animal Video Preserves Performing Protected Documentaries Wildlife

Author:Montel Williams

“... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.”

People Art Different Voice Race Singing Monsters Selfishness Performing Performers Magnificent Egotism Performing Arts Egomania

Author:Leontyne Price

“I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, orpossibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene.”

“I was just glad to get the Grammy. I didn't know what the thing was. It's the honor what I loved.”

Knows Art Music Honor Musician Glad Performing Performing Arts Grammy

Author:Elizabeth Cotten

“I was vegetarian, trying to eat from fast-food restaurants without meat. I didn't know how to eat properly and I was starving. I was adrenalized to the eyeballs from performing. I was afraid that I was sick with AIDS. We were playing five shows a week. I even went through a period of abstinence where I didn't drink and stopped having sex. Which is crazy. Maybe I'm answering too many questions at once here, but this is where my mind was at the age of 25.”

Knows Trying Mind Shows Age Sex Know How Five Week Crazy Periods Drink Sick Aids Performing Meat Restaurants Vegetarian Starving Fast Food Abstinence Having Sex Eyeballs Fast Food Restaurants

Author:Michael Stipe

“I'm drawn to a lot of tragedies, and I love a Greek tragedy.But I would think - I start thinking realistically about it, and performing eight days a week, that would take a toll. I take things to heart. I don't know if I could survive, like, "Medea."”

Ifs Thinking Knows Heart Week Tragedy Eight Greek Performing If I Could Tolls Greek Tragedy Medea

Author:Eva Mendes

“The thing I miss about performing is being with people.”

People Missing Performing

Author:Tim Federle

“As a cameraman, I was paid to stand within a few feet of Yehudi Menuhin performing. I saw Rudolph Nureyev dancing. I couldn't believe I was being paid for that.”

Believe Saws Feet Paid Dancing Performing Cameraman Rudolph

Author:Michael Bond

“I'm pretty much living my dream job, but one day I would love to dedicate more time to writing and performing my own music.”

Writing Dream Jobs My Own One Day Performing More Time Dream Job

Author:Kendall Schmidt

“I find that when I am gossiping about my friends, as well as my enemies, I am deeply conscious of performing a social duty. But when I hear they are gossiping about me, I am rightfully filled with righteous indignation.”

Wells Social Enemy Duty Conscious My Friends Filled Performing Righteous Indignation Righteous Indignation

Author:Max Gluckman

“As a singer and songwriter, I have great admiration for many of the budding stars who come to try their hand at performing and can relate to the hopes and aspirations of all the contestants, no matter how good or bad.”

Trying Matter Hands Stars Singers Relate Performing Aspiration Admiration Songwriters Contestants

Author:LeAnn Rimes

“I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.”

Country Motivational Situation Economy Oil Performing Expecting Currency Cautious Pricing

Author:Lakshmi

“When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.”

Soul Death Medicine Performing Autopsy

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Even fans of actively managed funds often concede that most other investors would be better off in index funds. But buoyed by abundant self-confidence, these folks aren't about to give up on actively managed funds themselves. A tad delusional? I think so. Picking the best-performing funds is 'like trying to predict the dice before you roll them down the craps table,' says an investment adviser in Boca Raton, FL. 'I can't do it. The public can't do it.'”

Thinking Giving Trying I Can Self Would Be Fans Giving Up Tables Investment Investing Folks Self Confidence Performing Fund Investors Crap Better Off Dice Adviser Delusional Index Funds

Author:Paul Samuelson

“The cost of performing well in bad times can be relative underperformance in good times.”

Wells Cost Investing Performing Good Times Relative Bad Times Performing Well Underperformance

Author:Seth Klarman

“It seems that these phenomenal feats that race car drivers are performing are instinctive. They [require] very little mental workload.”

Littles Seems Race Technology Car Performing Drivers Phenomenal Feats Race Car Workload Race Car Driver

Author:Chris Gerdes

“Humans are incapable of securely storing high-quality cryptographic keys, and they have unacceptable speed and accuracy when performing cryptographic operations. (They are also large, expensive to maintain, difficult to manage, and they pollute the environment. It is astonishing that these devices continue to be manufactured and deployed. But they are sufficiently pervasive that we must design our protocols around their limitations.)”

“[Non-performing songwriters] climb the mountain the first time, take their successes in stride, and when they tumble down the mountain, they just consider the tumble part of their profession and don't even waste time mourning their slump. They continue to write, make new connections, and move forward toward a new round of success.”

Writing Firsts Moving Mountain Waste First Time Connections Rounds Profession Moving Forward Performing Mourning Climbs Songwriting Wasting Time Songwriters Stride Slumps

Author:Michael Kosser

“In the early nineteenth century, the doctrine of self-sufficiency came to apply to families as well as individuals.... The familybecame a special protected place, the repository of tender, pure, and generous feelings (embodied by the mother) and a bulwark and bastion against the raw, competitive, aggressive, and selfish world of commerce (embodied by the father).... In performing this protective task, the good family was to be as self-sufficient as the good man.”

“As your bodybuilding aims become higher, obviously you have to work harder, until, believe it or not, you are performing from 20-30 sets of both biceps and triceps three workouts per week.”

Believe Three Week Hard Work Higher Harder Aim Performing Workout Bodybuilding Work Harder Biceps Triceps

Author:Reg Park

“It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up.”

Writing Years Lasts Black Music Position Regret Broken Band Privilege Disappointment Performing Broken Up

Author:Rich Robinson

“I realize that artists can become fatigued from touring the world over, but if it's your first major tour, you've got to buckle down and do it, said Sami Jarroush, a music blogger for Consequence of Sound. Short of suffering from an actual medical emergency, saying you're going to stop performing so you can take a vacation isn't exactly going to make you look good in the eyes of however many fans you have left.”

Ifs World Firsts Looks Said Eye Artist Suffering Left Sound Realizing Music Fans Majors Consequence Down And Medical Performing Vacation Emergencies Touring Bloggers Buckles

Author:Iggy Azalea

“It's all about going out there, performing live, making music. But, obviously, being a guy who has thousands of screaming female fans doesn't exactly make it less fun”

Guy Fun Fans Female Performing Going Out Performing Live

Author:Zac Hanson

“In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who have been rigorously prepared in universities and through supervised practice in schools, and who remain in education for all of their careers.”

Has Beens Country School Careers Practice Teacher Prepared University Range Performing Principal Qualified Education For All

Author:Andy Hargreaves

“There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.”

Ifs Elements Performing Adrenaline Spatial

Author:Kim Gordon

“I think of myself as unconventional. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.”

Thinking Problem Authority Expected Despite Recognition Performing Stubbornness Unconventional

Author:Kim Gordon

“When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real performing world. So you get a lot of things wrong and make a lot of mistakes and make a lot of bad choices.”

World Writing Real Home Choices Rooms Mistake Connections Scripts Performing Bad Choices

Author:Woody Allen

“Learn as much as you can about performing. Live theater, improv classes, music, stand up comedy, dance, anything to make yourself confident and comfortable in front of an audience. It'll all come in handy when auditioning for producers and performing with other actors. The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.”

“I've got three sons, and two of them would absolutely hate being on the stage and never liked appearing in their school plays or musicals, but the middle one absolutely loves it and never shows any sign of nerves or pressure and really gets a kick out of performing. I think it depends entirely on the child. And that applies to anything whether it's sport or entertainment or music or film.”

Thinking Children Two Play Shows School Film Hate Three Sports Middle Stage Son Depends Pressure Entertainment Performing Kicks Nerves Appearing School Plays Three Sons

Author:Piers Morgan

“Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really, if the character you're performing is yourself. I don't see that as playing a role. It's just appearing in public.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Sometimes Character Actors Roles Performing Appearing

Author:Joan Didion

“Performing live is like harvesting your crops and sharing your food with people.”

People Performing Crops Performing Live

Author:Jason Mraz

“I really wanted to approach performing live differently than most people who just play guitar and sing.”

People Play Wanted Approach Guitar Performing Performing Live

Author:James Vincent McMorrow

“I go on the road all the time, but I'm only performing for two hours a night, and then I'll do a meet-and-greet, and then I'll get a bite to eat, get drunk, pass out, wake up the next day, sleeping the next day, sleeping off the hangover, and then I'm in the next city.”

Two Night Next Hours Sleep Cities Goes On Wake Up Drunk Performing Bites Next Day Hangover

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“When Pixies broke up in 1993, I gave up the drums for the longest time. I hadn't been doing a lot, but I ended up attending a magic convention that initially got me interested. I took classes, bought videos, and practiced relentlessly. I began performing at parties and soon realized that developing an on-stage routine is often tougher than being a musician. I focused my act on magic that incorporated as much science as it did entertainment, which was really satisfying for me.”

Party Class Magic Stage Musician Entertainment Focused Video Developing Broke Performing Routine Satisfying Conventions Gave Up Attending Broke Up Pixies

Author:David Lovering

“The other way that you democratize the food movement is through the public school system. If you can pay enough for the school lunch system so that it can actually be cooked and not just microwaved, so that these schools can buy local food, fresh food, because right now it's all frozen and processed, you will improve the health of the students, you will improve the health of the local economy, and you will have better performing students.”

Ifs Way Enough School Pay Economy Movement Students Right Now Locals Performing Lunch Frozen Public School School System Fresh Food Local Food School Lunch

Author:Michael Pollan

“The way you survive in the performing arts is by having a sense of your audience, and doing things which entertain and satisfy the audience, but in a more important way, cause the audience to question many things.”

Way Art Important Causes Audience Art Is Performing Performing Arts

Author:Michael Tilson Thomas

“I've always loved performing. It was always very exciting for me. I don't get too nervous when I'm playing, but on every stage, it's a little different. I'm always excited, but sometimes, the level of anxiety to perform is greater.”

Littles Different Sometimes Levels Greater Stage Anxiety Exciting Excited Nervous Performing

Author:George Li

“Learning and performing music have been rewarding, both physically and mentally. They helped me to mature and grow as a person.”

Persons Has Beens Grows Performing Mature Performing Music

Author:George Li

“That's one of our biggest challenges is finding out how to do that. There are times when you have to scale back. You might be performing on a five-by-five stage in front of 12 people. That's an exaggeration but there are times when you have to turn the corner and do an acoustic set.”

People Might Turns Challenges Five Stage Fronts Findings Corners Scales Performing Exaggeration Acoustics

Author:Alan Powell

“Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.”

Writing Art Performances Performing Performers Performance Art

Author:Clive James

“I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets.”

Giving Believe Looks Growing Stage Regret Prepared Silly Performing Be Prepared Growing Old Growing Old Gracefully Performing On Stage

Author:George Harrison

“The best part of performing is the people. I love interacting with people. My favorite part is the crowd. I love rocking out with the crowd, that's definitely the best part.”

People My Favorite Crowds Performing Interacting Rocking Out

Author:Yelawolf

“I can't wait to design the performance. I want to make a moment that is about much more than me. Performing in space is such an honor. I want to challenge myself to come up with something that will not only bring everyone together but will also have a message of love that blasts into the beyond.”

Want I Can Moments Together Waiting Challenges Space Design Honor Messages Performances Come Up Performing Blast

Author:Lady Gaga

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