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“You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.”
Joe Paterno
“The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.”
Will Rogers
“To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing”
Elizabeth Bibesco
“Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.”
Charles Garfield
“Balanchine has trained his cat to perform brilliant jetés and tours en l'air; he says that at last he has a body worth choreographing for.”
Bernard Taper
“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.”
Julia Roberts
“The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.”
Ansel Adams
“It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.”
William Shakespeare
“Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.”
Samantha Morton
“ICONOCLAST, n. A breaker of idols, the worshipers whereof are imperfectly gratified by the performance, and most strenuously protest that he unbuildeth but doth not reedify, that he pulleth down but pileth not up. For the poor things would have other idols in place of those he thwacketh upon the mazzard and dispelleth. But the iconoclast saith: "Ye shall have none at all, for ye need them not; and if the rebuilder fooleth round hereabout, behold I will depress the head of him and sit thereon till he squawk it."”
Ambrose Bierce
