#performance

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance. ↗

— Joan Didion

#girl #i #impulse #little #little girl

People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#entertainers #events #great #i #i think

We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance. ↗

— Penelope Keith

#always #careful #chocolates #had #make

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women. ↗

— Lord Kelvin

#horses #increases #large #only #performance

I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#come #danger #i #i think #made

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul. ↗

— Roger McGough

#because #been #better #children #comedy

One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#america #economy #how #look #military

Well, no. I believe that it's not at all impossible that some of the performances that I've heard so far by some pianists may be superior to my own playing because those are two totally different acts altogether. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#altogether #because #believe #different #far

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality. ↗

— Joe Paterno

#confidence #excellence #individual #learns #performance

I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#grammys #how #i #i remember #looking