#forming

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much. ↗

— Ronnie Spector

#every #every night #i #man #missed

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#black #civilization #engaged #immigrant #in the past

Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable. ↗

— Cathy Rigby

#alone #golf #like #lot #performing

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. ↗

— Anne Frank

#final #forming #hands #lies #own

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions. ↗

— William Allen White

#america #comfort #ease #genie #into

It's fun when you're winning and performing well, but it's also hard because now you get older, you got responsibilities. ↗

— Rau'Shee Warren

#because #fun #get #got #hard

That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it and that was it. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#performing-arts #art

Theatre has so many competitors, it's no longer enough to see and hear a play. You want to be able to touch and smell it too ↗

— Lucien Bourjeily

#actor #actress #immersive #interactive-theater #multisensory

Performers should realize they not only have to prepare themselves for concert purposes as far as memorizing their programs goes, but for the business of just walking out before the people …. It is important to play before an imaginary audience too. Before I play in public I very often play a program three or four times as though I were seated before a actual audience. ↗

— Leonard Rose

#nervousness #performing #public-speaking #business

I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#affairs #brain #doubt #foreign #foreign affairs