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“I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.”

Knows Should Believe I Believe Sound Know How Stage Vices Studios Performers Vice Versa

Author:Haley Reinhart

“Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.”

Done Kids Passion Enjoy Stage Performing Performing On Stage

Author:Haley Reinhart

“As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it.”

Ends Happens Stage Movement Stuck Reverse Frozen Parkinson Parkinson's

Author:Michael J. Fox

“When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.”

Shows Kids Used Stage Six Seven Get Up Stoves

Author:Jerry Reed

“Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way to his spot on the stage. It's crucial not to blow it. It sets the tempo of the show; it affects everyone's perception of the band.”

Way Important Play Moments Shows Light Walks Stage Band Perception Red Blow Spots Performers Crucial Glowing Tempo Flashlights Important Moments

Book:Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone

Source: Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone

“To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.”

People Knows Ideas Able Together Laughing Path Stage Abstract Beaten Making People Laugh Make Me Happy Beaten Path Off The Beaten Path

Author:Mary Lynn Rajskub

“On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this stage I'm often surprised. A different ending or a new character shows up and I'm back to where I began, letting the story happen, just trying to stay out of the way.”

Way Trying Different Character Stories Shows Happens Lasts Focus Stage Including Stressed Syllables I'm Back Vowels Consonants

Author:Ron Rash

“My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.”

Two Country My Own Stage Development Members Perception Originals Various Stages Of Development Asean

Author:S. R. Nathan

“Hiphop has remained in an infantile stage and has not been allowed to grow.”

Grows Stage Infantile

Author:Slick Rick

“At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.”

Ends Happens Stage Immigration Agreement

Author:Vicente Fox

“I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Play Dream Bigs Careers Struggle Player Stage Battle Tennis Worthwhile Worth It Tournaments Doubted Tennis Player

Author:Samantha Stosur

“I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that's the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member.”

Years Kind Play Actors Social Stuff Deals Audience Issues Stage Members Driven Really Great Social Issues Stage Actors

Author:Danny Strong

“Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.”

Names Stage Complexes Telephones Bishops Eric Jamie

Author:Jamie Foxx

“There is no one who's gonna be sitting on that stage who has the record of job creation I have. There's one in particular who's created jobs all around the world. While he was the governor of Massachusetts he didn't create many jobs.”

World Jobs Records Stage Creation Particular Republican Sitting Around The World Governors Massachusetts Job Creation

Author:Rick Perry

“I don't think that Mitt Romney can legitimately say that he learned anything about how to create jobs in the LBO (leveraged buyout) business. The LBO business is about how to strip cash out of old, long-in-the-tooth companies and how to make short-term profits. All the jobs that he talks about came from Staples. That was a very early venture stage deal. That, you know they got out of long before it got to its current size.”

Thinking Knows Long Jobs Term Deals Company Stage Republican Size Profit Currents Teeth Cash Venture Short Term Romney Staples

Author:David Stockman

“The teacher will have a certain imprint, and each teacher imprints differently. Ultimately the imprint of the teacher is a limitation that you will have to overcome in your final stages of knowledge.”

Certain Teacher Stage Awareness Buddhism Overcoming Finals Limitation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The vast majority of beings who incarnate on this planet are at the stage of their evolution where power is the dominant theme. They are learning about power. That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction.”

World War Humanity Stage Planets Buddhism Evolution Destruction Majority Theme Dominant

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Humankind has no idea what existence is, at this stage. They're all dreaming, they're all asleep... Once in a great while a fully awakened one is here, observes everybody is sleeping and leaves, quietly.”

Ideas Dream Humanity Sleep Existence Stage Buddhism No Idea Humankind Awakened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.”

Stage Function Mirrors Psychoanalytic

Book:Écrits: a selection

Source: Écrits: a selection

“When you do a song new live on stage, it's kind of a bit weird until it gets worn in, you know, like oiled up a bit. It's still a little bit stiff until you really thrashed at it for a few weeks.”

Knows Kind Littles Stills Song Bits Week Stage Little Bit Worn

Author:Jeff Lynne

“I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.”

Writing Play Wanted Song Stage Currents

Author:K. D. Lang

“There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.”

Ifs Felt Perfect Stage Quitting

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.”

Made Stage Enjoyable Adjustment

Author:Michael Schenker

“I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.”

People Character Able Stage Fronts Like Me Shy

Author:Romeo Santos

“Stage performing is a dying art form.”

Art Form Stage Dying Performing

Author:Ronnie Spector

“I would like to direct. What goes on behind stage is very interesting.”

Interesting Behinds Stage Goes On Direct Very Interesting

Author:Sarah Sutton

“It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.”

Kind Littles Today Film Used Actors Bits Lines Happened One Thing Stage Television Tvs Little Bit Used To Be Crossover Movie Actors Film Actors Stage Actors

Author:Aaron Tveit

“Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.”

Ifs I Can Sometimes Helping Voice Hurt Stage Needed Balance Singing Ears Loud Help Me

Author:Aaron Tveit

“It's always just a great thing to see your kids connecting and you see the different stages.”

Different Kids Stage Great Things Connecting

Author:Christine Taylor

“Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.”

Want Ideas Bigs Might Wanted Deals Acting Attention Stage Paid Notion Work Out What You Want Big Deal Jockeys

Author:Olivia Thirlby

“I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.”

Enough Dream Impossible Stage Lucky Performances Excited Actresses Really Great Juice Trust Me Get Real Pipe Great Performance Impossible Dream Pipe Dreams

Author:Olivia Thirlby

“I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.”

Long Used Night Cutting Stage Jokes All Night

Author:Robin Thicke

“I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.”

Rooms Stage Hanging Out Casual Living Room

Author:Kate Voegele

“I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.”

Sometimes Character Bigs Decision Stage Design Scene Scales I've Learned Illustration Overcrowding

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“I'll keep going until I get to the point where I can't get out on stage.”

I Can Stage Keep Going

Author:Andy Williams

“You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.”

Way Girl Stage

Author:Beatrice Wood

“I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.”

Firsts Attention Stage First Time Seven Nine Just Being

Author:Gemma Ward

“I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.”

Thinking Might Stage Fronts Cameras

Author:Jeffrey Wright

“I can't eat before I go onstage because I've learnt that burping on stage isn't a good thing. It's all about acid reflux.”

I Can Stage Good Things Acid Burping Acid Reflux

Author:Jessie Ware

“Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.”

Today Interesting Wonderful Stage Television Drama Most Interesting Blockbuster

Author:Julie Walters

“Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways.”

Way I Can Different Might Able Film Form Stage Paper Weakness Advantage Performances Communicate Mediums Different Ways Stage Performance

Author:Lawrence Wright

“People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.”

People Feels Different Stage Mature

Author:Lee Westwood

“If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.”

Ifs Feels Done Play Bits Stage Like You Weight Passing Passings Instance Torches Staggering Passing It

Author:Samuel West

“I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.”

Stage Knees

Author:Zakk Wylde

“I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.”

Play Stage

Author:James Young

“Your mind makes you dance like a monkey all the time... Now you have to become stronger; you have to make the mind dance. Make it dance on the stage of mantra. For that, mediate and repeat mantra.”

Mind Stage Stronger Contemplation Repeats Monkeys Mantras

Author:Swami Muktananda

“Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At death, we walk offstage. At birth, we walk onstage.”

Inspirational Different Soul Play Film Life Is Walks Roles Stage Buddhism Birth Please Theatre Popcorn

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have probably had past lives where you were in better stages of mind than you are in now.”

Inspirational Mind Past Stage Buddhism Past Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough.”

Source: A Question of Upbringing: Book 1 of A Dance to the Music of Time

“One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer 'no' time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot possibly subdue. Then, beyond the crowds of criticism and rejection, the right people recognize his talent - among them he finds his stage.”

People Knows May Purpose Turns Grows Answers Stage Talent Criticism Crowds Hearing Rejection Bullying Weary

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

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