#forming

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#again #boring #conforming #ever #everything

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song. ↗

— Frank Black

#as far as #back #boston #far #folk

And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#away #being #connecting #exactly #great

It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare. ↗

— Judi Dench

#hear #incredibly #moving #our #performing

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious. ↗

— Robert Blair

#begin #being #certain #deformity #end

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#any #attitude #back #came #different

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged. ↗

— Karen Kain

#better #challenged #dancers #like #nothing

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#create #excuse #i #i write #performing

So to that extent that was a very sharp reminder a few months out from the election that we weren't performing in the eyes of the public to the level that they wanted if they were going to re-elect us. So we went out and were much more upfront on issues. ↗

— Jim Bolger

#extent #eyes #few #going #issues

When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school. ↗

— Dave Lombardo

#childhood #forming #high #high school #i