Quotes with performances

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ellen Barkin People tend to remember my performances, not me.
    Ellen Barkin
    American actress and producer (1954 - )
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  • Abdul Kalam ... the best way to win was to not need to win. The best performances are accomplished when you are relaxed and free of doubt.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Aaron Copland I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.
    Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Ben Affleck I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Billy West Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.
    Billy West
    American voice actor and musician (1952 - )
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  • Billie Lourd The great thing about women directors is that they're not only involved in the performances - they can gauge where we all are personally and know how to direct us better because of that.
    Billie Lourd
    American actress (1992 - )
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  • Billy Beane The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Carlisle Floyd The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Boris Kodjoe The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Carlisle Floyd There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Billy Evans Upsetting the dope is a favorite pastime in baseball. Past performances count for but little in the national pastime. Reputations don't get you anywhere. A club is judged solely on results, and to get results, you must win ball games.
    Billy Evans
    American umpire in Major League Baseball (1884 - )
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  • Ben Harper We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Bobby Bonilla We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.
    Bobby Bonilla
    American Major League Baseball player (1963 - )
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  • Alec Baldwin You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.
    Alec Baldwin
    American actor, writer, producer and comedian (1958 - )
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