Nobody has ever said anything about Marion Jones every using performance-enhancing drugs and they never will. ~By Marion Jones ~
If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing. ~By Bill Dixon ~
Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country. ~By Richard Lugar ~
I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance. ~By Pat Boone ~
Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible. ~By Javier Bardem ~
With NOAH, you can create some stunning, yet original soundscapes. Therefore, as a performance tool, it really comes into its own because you can make one single performance which has a lot of detail. ~By Geoff Downes ~
Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances. ~By Peter Stone ~
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner. ~By Bela Lugosi ~
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone. ~By Maggie Smith ~
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. ~By Frank Zappa ~
An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise. ~By Kate Smith ~
After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make. ~By Christian Slater ~
We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance. ~By Penelope Keith ~
You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance. ~By Eric Cantona ~
What we've seen this season is that if something that will enhance performance is available, some players will indulge... unless the penalty is an absolute deterrent. ~By Michael Wilbon ~
I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people. ~By Timothy Bottoms ~
I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do. ~By John Hawkes ~
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance. ~By Richard M. Nixon ~
Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do. ~By Sherilyn Fenn ~
People tend to remember my performances, not me. ~By Ellen Barkin ~
I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film. ~By Mike Figgis ~
I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena. ~By Charles Barkley ~
Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales. ~By John Perry Barlow ~
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different. ~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance. ~By Sam Mendes ~
Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience. ~By Marc Davis ~
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality. ~By Joe Paterno ~
I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward. ~By Judy Holliday ~
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious. ~By Georg Simmel ~
I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance. ~By Chuck Mangione ~
Dance every performance as if it were your last. ~By Erik Bruhn ~
I would have liked it to have stayed serious and have the adventures of a family lost in space. This isn't to take anything away from Jonathan and the Robot. I watch his performance today and he still makes me laugh. ~By Mark Goddard ~
I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances. ~By Nancy Greene ~
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event. ~By Edward Gibbon ~
Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance. ~By Gloria Stuart ~
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. ~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance. ~By Keith Richards ~
What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition. ~By Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ~
We all have levels of performance. ~By Angela Lansbury ~
I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine. ~By Alison Lohman ~
When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe. ~By Jim Carrey ~
I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time. ~By Johnny Rivers ~
That kind of piece, perhaps most recognizable because of Yoko Ono's similar work, built a bridge between performance art and music - and without raising any awkward social issues. ~By Tony Conrad ~
The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so. ~By Shelley Berman ~
Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital. ~By Howard Dean ~
I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive. ~By Bill Joy ~
Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience. ~By Shelley Berman ~
I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did. ~By Alan Arkin ~
Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show. ~By Major Taylor ~
I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary. ~By Julia Roberts ~
I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena. ~By Charles Barkley ~
One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors. ~By Cyril Cusack ~
Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance. ~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance. ~By Esther Dyson ~
As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen? ~By Lukas Foss ~
Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over. ~By Brenda Blethyn ~
It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on. ~By Richard McCabe ~
I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation. ~By Trip Hawkins ~
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance. ~By Harold S. Geneen ~
A lawyer's performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts. ~By Melvin Belli ~
When you're buying real growth and want real performance, you buy excellent management and good products and you diversify across industry sectors. ~By Robert Morse ~
I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad. ~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning. ~By Gordon Moore ~
Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries. ~By Florenz Ziegfeld ~
When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity. ~By John Strachan ~
The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it! ~By Gunther Schuller ~
You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theatre because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again. ~By Harvey Fierstein ~
I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance. ~By Jon Favreau ~
I try to get the best performance an actor can give. ~By Taylor Hackford ~
If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash. ~By Mary Lou Retton ~
One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song. ~By Manfred Mann ~
I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances. ~By Lasse Hallstrom ~
We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm. ~By Franz Liszt ~
I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience. ~By Lasse Hallstrom ~
I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!' ~By Jason Dohring ~
Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer. ~By Jon Postel ~
That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty. ~By Roberta Flack ~
You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it. ~By Don King ~
The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances. ~By Jeffrey Tambor ~
I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories. ~By Connie Stevens ~
I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level. ~By Barry Bonds ~
And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance. ~By John W. Snow ~
Performance is your reality. Forget everything else. ~By Harold S. Geneen ~
If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film. ~By Vin Diesel ~
I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films. ~By Julie Taymor ~
If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances. ~By Evan Parker ~
New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush. ~By Andrew Cuomo ~
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. ~By Sarah Sutton ~
America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances. ~By Meryl Streep ~
So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see. ~By Alice Cooper ~
A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed. ~By Kelly Jones ~
And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with. ~By Michael Tilson Thomas ~
The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance. ~By Shelley Berman ~
Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone. ~By Guru Nanak ~
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity. ~By Jack Bowman ~
I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission. ~By John Fogerty ~
In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film. ~By Gwyneth Paltrow ~
A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance. ~By Tom Flores ~
I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room. ~By Bruce Beresford ~
Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words. ~By Laurie Anderson ~
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