#former

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer. ↗

— Jamie Farr

#broadway #does #hollywood #i #i do

I'm a live performer and I love playing live. ↗

— Tim Finn

#i love #live #love #performer #playing

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#buy #court #crowded #fire #former

But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described. ↗

— George Ripley

#before #described #drawn #easily #extract

The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#active #eighty #feet #flesh #former

I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#afraid #alone #always #around #becoming

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot. ↗

— Patti LuPone

#eastern #i #kinds #like #listen

I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#audience #i #i always #i love #just

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#another #authors #comparing #discovered #former

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success. ↗

— Mary Lou Retton

#appearances #era #financial #former #get