Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
"Posing is a performing art."
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Performing
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Seth Lloyd
Computer Scientist
"One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?"
Claude Monet
Painter
"I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint."
James Brown
Singer, Musician
"Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there."
Madonna Ciccone
Singer
"There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I'll always have that."
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"Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform."
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"Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue."
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"I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much."
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"The pressure performing is something you have to get used to, really really quick."
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"By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself."
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"Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years."
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"Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it."
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"I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be on, performing."
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"I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently."
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"I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young."
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"I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces."
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"I'm coming up on 30. There are other things that I want to pursue outside of just performing."
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"Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy."
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"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."
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"When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album."
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"The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair."
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"My tendency to internalize emotion is probably why I'm an actor. I'm comfortable performing angrily but have such difficulty expressing anger in my life."
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"I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much."
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"Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer."
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"I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane."
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