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Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance! -- Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise. -- Kate Smith
I got into the studio when I was thirteen. At the age of twelve I was doing public performances. -- Chingy
Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along -- E. M. Forster
For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance. -- Roger Mudd
I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt. -- Barbra Streisand
My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But thats just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun. -- Tom Lehrer
My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun. -- Tom Lehrer
I've auditioned for roles that involved voice, but I don't like it. I feel like, I can't do this in front of you. It seems so separate - I don't share it with a lot of people. And I'm not into public performances. -- Amanda Seyfried
This is a turf battle. They are saying, 'The songwriters aren't getting paid.' Baloney. Songwriters are getting paid. They're paid sync rights and (mechanical) rights. They aren't getting paid for the public performance in a download because there is no public performance in a download. -- Jonathan Potter
The only time the private parts of someone's life are relevant is when they're affecting public performance. And just because someone is a public person doesn't mean that any part of his or her private life is open to scrutiny. If someone is doing his or her job, you have to have enough empathy to understand that we all have personal problems. -- Rudy Giuliani
The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance. Two people (20 per cent of the audience) laughed; one was Chinese, the other, whom I couldn't see, might have been an escaped hyena. This laughless francophobic comedy stars its co-scriptwriter, Steve Martin, in what is, by my reckoning, his eighth lousy remake since 1989. -- Philip French
All you owe the public is a good performance. -- Humphrey Bogart
The only thing you owe the public is a good performance. -- Humphrey Bogart
Smart cities are those who manage their resources efficiently. Traffic, public services and disaster response should be operated intelligently in order to minimize costs, reduce carbon emissions and increase performance. -- Eduardo Paes
I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media. -- Milton Babbitt
I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady. -- Larry Wilcox
When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction. -- Lizzy Caplan
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news. -- John le Carre
Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing live only in private clubs and at charity events, where she presumably believed the pressure on her was less intense. -- Scott Stossel
The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public. -- Carlisle Floyd
I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances. -- Anne Hathaway
I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life. -- Antony Gormley
In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won't make it. -- Bruno Mars
From the very beginning, I started doing music performances with a lot of theatrical aspects to them, where humor was a part of it but not necessarily had to be. Humor is just another tool to make the palette more rich and interesting for myself and eventually for the public. It's a great way to break out of convention. -- Aleksey Igudesman
Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I owe the public just one thing - a good performance. -- Bob Gibson
I owe one thing to my public - the best performance I can give. -- Johnny Carson
The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised. -- Peggy Noonan
Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise - competition. -- Bob Lutz
Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people. -- Lyn Gardner
No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation. -- Milton Friedman
The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one's public and on that private audience to whom one owes even more. -- Judith Martin

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