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There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.
The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'
When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.
Dre is someone I've looked up to since 1985 when he came to my college and performed with The Wrecking Crew.
Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.
Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
I wouldn't say I give the hairdryer treatment but when we've not performed well you have to make people aware.
Even the mundane task may have something to teach you - especially if it's a task you haven't performed before.
I've recorded a few Bacharach songs over the years and performed some in concert and always felt they suited me.
My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no one was around I'd kiss the screen.
I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.
Science is performed by people, and it's subject to all the various foibles that plague the rest of our social dynamics.
I want to shake people up so bad, that when they leave a nightclub where I've performed, I just want them to be to pieces.
I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.
I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'
The first time I remember going to Nashville was in 1971 back when 'Snowbird' was a hit and I performed at the Grand Ole Opry.
You cannot have black music without something soulful in it, whether it's lyrically, how it's performed, or how it's expressed.
I don't know why I performed well against Arsenal, but probably we prepared well, and it could be their football style as well.
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.
How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
I just have to continue to get better and continue to learn. Whatever unfolds, I want people to know I stayed a pro and performed.
Once when we performed at a festival there were between 50, 000 and 60, 000 people in the audience we were so shocked. It was crazy.
My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about becoming an actress.
I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.
It's a terrible thing to say, but I hated school. I'm very ADD, and my report card always said, 'If only she performed to her potential.'
I have performed all over the world to packed audiences. I don't have to be a trained musician to prove my singing abilities to my critics.
Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety.
I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing.
I do know some of the world's richest people. In monetary terms, they all performed very well. In terms of a fulfilling life, I am less sure.
My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
I will never forgive Joe for that awful operation he had performed on Rosemary. It is the only thing I have ever felt bitter toward him about.
I performed in Redlands, Calif., at Splash Kingdom. It reminded me of the water parks I went to as a kid. I was like, 'I want to ride the rides!'
We have always made sure that players who have played for CSK, even those who came from other franchises for whatever reason, have performed well.
And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.
As an actress who has performed in theater for over 17 years, my experience performing in 'The Color Purple' has been a truly life-changing journey.
Each time I have performed in Utah, I had a great time, and the audiences seem to enjoy what I do. The audiences are very warm and very appreciative.
I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.
I was playing 'The Flight of the Bumblebee,' and I totally forgot the ending, so I performed the whole piece again, and I still couldn't remember it.
I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything.
I will never forget when we performed at the Tokyo Dome. Growing up, I was told that only A-list famous musicians are invited to perform at that venue.
No TV show in history, no movie ever made - nothing you can imagine as being written or filmed or performed can turn a normal human being into a Dexter.
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
I must say that Bengaluru has been one of the best places where I've performed and I would love to associate with the theatre scene here on a personal level.