#performance

The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#hayley #mills #parent #performances #remarkable

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. ↗

— Barack Obama

#active #avoid #being #black #carefully

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#future #guarantee #here #i #just

As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance. ↗

— Keith Olbermann

#hour #just #me #part #performance

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance. ↗

— Will Oldham

#definitely #extent #i #i write #last

I'm attracted to roles that are unpredictable, and if I can get my hands on something like that, I'm thrilled. I like performances where you don't know what's coming, moment to moment. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#coming #get #hands #i #i can

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#arts #been #birth #dance #decline

I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving export performance, and sustaining growth, in a way that is more sound and permanent. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#basis #combination #export #gains #going

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality. ↗

— Candace Parker

#back #best #bring #coming #dad

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances. ↗

— Evan Parker

#drawn #i #i think #into #live