As actors, we’re like these vagabond artists: we have to be invited to perform, so if you don’t have a choice of options, it’s very hard to define yourself.
I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.
Being cold for a short period of time is not life-threatening. You can perform a task when you’re cold. We proved that when the Vikings played outside.
No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can’t really perform live at all – don’t really have jobs and skills.
I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform.
The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don’t perform.
I respect very much my public and also the music I perform.
The one appearance that I made for President Kennedy, he, as I understand, had his choice or was asked to make a list of the people he would like to have perform, and I was fortunate enough to be one of them.
I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had ‘The Mountain Opry,’ where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.
I am starting to look like and perform like the Lou that I used to be.
Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.
I have friends that I have made through Twitter or things like that, but they’re all verified as real people – I’ve either seen them perform, or we’re mutual fans of each other, something like that. I don’t have any authentic, ‘Catfish’-worthy stories.
Most of my avant garde fashion is saved for my videos and for the stage. In real life, I tend towards a classy, black Goth look. I love black, a few sparkles, false eyelashes and boots. But when I perform, I love fantasy and props.
I think the process of ‘SNL’ is still pretty formal. You make an audition tape, your agent sends it in, they watch people’s tapes, and then they invite people to perform at a comedy club in Los Angeles or New York. But I don’t know how much actual scouting they do online.
I trained myself to perform on the field.
I’ve always been more natural at doing hosting things: reading teleprompters, taking direction and asking questions… I’m actually able to perform a little bit.
What I have said is that I think the federal government and we as a society have come too far in trying to separate good organizations that perform good functions for people just based on the fact one has a religious association and one doesn’t.
I love to perform not only music, but to make performances extremely visual, and create almost a magical fantasy. It’s really an uplifting style of art that combines visuals and music in very dreamlike ways.
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there’s no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
I went out of my way to make ‘Immortal’ sound perfect. ‘Immortal,’ ‘Just What I Am,’ and ‘King Wizard,’ those are perfect beats. Not a lot of people can perform on them. I say that meaning they’re tailor-made for me.
I try to perform honestly during the fight, and I always remember that I’m a representative of Russia. I try not to bring any aggression. Just honesty.
I will never forget when we performed at the Tokyo Dome. Growing up, I was told that only A-list famous musicians are invited to perform at that venue.
No British TV company could ever make a series like ‘The West Wing’ about British politics. It would beggar credibility. No one could write it with a straight face, or perform it without giggling.
‘The Fever’ is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.
I wasn’t into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I’d go to all the rehearsals, and then I’d pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school.
My fans, country radio, friends, family, you name it – they know I love to perform.
I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn’t perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.
I love good food but I follow strict rules the days I perform.
Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.
My aim is to be the best in the world and perform in each of Pakistan’s wins.
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ‘culture.’
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
I am proud to perform at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert.
I have performed for people around the world but it is always a different feeling when you perform for your own people.
But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.
The NFL is a performance-based business, so you should have to perform to earn some of your money. At the same time, I realize that my success isn’t just because of what I do out there.
For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.
There’s still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don’t have the ability and aren’t strong enough.
On a foggy, steel gray Saturday in September 2002, Bennet Omalu arrived at the Allegheny County coroner’s office and got his assignment for the day: Perform an autopsy on the body of Mike Webster, a professional football player.
Everybody, be they female, whatever your religion, whatever your nationality, you’re an individual, and if you perform well, we want you, and if you don’t, we don’t.
I asked the question, ‘Will I ever perform again?’
I was raised with the idea that the arts were a doss – but the arts are vital. If you see Mark Rylance perform Shakespeare at the Globe, you know it’s a spiritual act.
Watching artists like Joplin perform, I felt that tingle down my spine; I experienced the wonders of a cultural and musical revolution.
I’m a natural ham. It doesn’t bother me to perform.
When you join a political party, you are attaching yourself with an organisation of skilled people. And when you work with an organisation, your working capacity becomes double. One can perform better with the help of an organisation to implement their thoughts.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Since I was very young, probably two or three, I had really good memorization skills. I would memorize stuff from TV and perform it for my family. I was the little performer for most of my early life. So eventually, my mom caught onto that and thought I might want to get into acting.
My impression of Las Vegas was in the movies and on TV. So we were all gonna go see somebody perform – I can’t recall who it was – and we went out and rented tuxedos because I thought that’s what you did in Vegas.
To me, at its best, that’s what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.
I’m a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids’ parties. I can still perform a vanish, credibly, and I still, in special circumstances, will make a balloon animal.
When I perform onstage, I’m actually kind of nearsighted, so I don’t have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like.
Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out opportunities to perform it.
When you’re performing, you just have to keep pushing through. You’re human, and you’re going to make mistakes. I think even Beyonce has tripped on stage, and she’s Beyonce! We’re all human beings, and sometimes we trip in our high heels! I barely perform in high heels. I don’t know how those girls do it.
The idea that one might use art for ‘instrumental’ reasons tends to set off alarm bells at the heart of the cultural elite, who contend that it’s not a pill, that it shouldn’t be asked to perform some specific function, especially something as egocentric as to ‘cheer you up’ or to ‘make you a more empathetic person.’
