#performance

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work. ↗

— Nastassja Kinski

#changing #constantly #done #even #i

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#culture #cultures #description #history #ideally

You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#gets #highlight #other #parts #performance

The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#apply #athletic #based #biomechanics #changes

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film. ↗

— Mel Torme

#began #dad #did #fans #film

I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#feel #find #generally #good #i

I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's still my interpretation. I'm not going to, you know, be a clone - well, I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson! ↗

— Michael Welch

#because #character #clone #comes #dean

Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused. ↗

— Shaun White

#bad #bad performance #come #determined #event

What I want is that I can match my performances during training so I can be satisfied with myself. ↗

— Liu Xiang

#i #i can #match #myself #performances

So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#few #flattered #got #i #performance