#perform

For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak, weep, sing and sigh, to recreate them in accordance with his own consciousness. In this way he, like the composer, is a creator, for he must have within himself those passions that he wishes to bring so intensely to life. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#performance #virtuoso #music

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#democratic #democratic society #functions #health #may

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

When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids. ↗

— Scott Adams

#boss #complaints #enough #first #going

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there. ↗

— Fred Astaire

#dancing #i #like #little #look

Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

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The thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know. ↗

— Tom Baker

#bad #bad taste #dinner #ever #had

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#i #love #movies #performance #spectacle

My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be. ↗

— Naima Adedapo

#confidence #consistent #deserve #first #first impression

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it. ↗

— Akhenaton

#alone #believe #boldness #child #due