#forming

I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about. ↗

— Andy Gibb

#also #australia #bars #been #could

When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me. ↗

— R. Kelly

#i #knowing #loved #me #no pressure

I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#just #me #people #performing #person

When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before. ↗

— James Levine

#done #easy #front #interpretive #ought

This election is a critical step in that overall plan - transforming the Iraqi government into a fully constitutional one, able to secure its own borders and ensure the safety of its citizens. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#borders #citizens #constitutional #critical #election

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them. ↗

— Charles M. Schwab

#attract #employers #expected #men #more

I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing. ↗

— Torrie Wilson

#crowds #feel #front #gives #huge

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

#conforming #contradict #forced #i #my own

Moon In the Window I wish I could say I was the kind of child who watched the moon from her window, would turn toward it and wonder. I never wondered. I read. Dark signs that crawled toward the edge of the page. It took me years to grow a heart from paper and glue. All I had was a flashlight, bright as the moon, a white hole blazing beneath the sheets. ↗

— Dorianne Laux

#forming #moon #dreams

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#begin #color #different #different color #different kind