#performance

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#capture #children #culture #each #getting

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

— Maureen O'Hara

#hayley #mills #parent #performances #remarkable

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

— Michelle Obama

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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

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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

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

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself. ↗

— Michelle Pfeiffer

#even #feel #give #good #hard

Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white. ↗

— Geraldo Rivera

#brown #gets #matter #performance #promoted

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#confidence #faithful #honesty #honor #live