"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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"Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway."
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"I've dreamed about performing songs, songs that don't even exist, as a complete song."
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"When I'm performing, I hope my research and my experience with those things I'm talking about rings true."
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"I've been performing my whole life."
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"Every American was to become a performing self."
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"I love performing. I'll never get that out of me."
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"Nothing beats performing live. For me, there's nothing better."
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"I love acting. I love performing."
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"If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That's why Twitter is performing so well on mobile."
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"I've been performing live a long time, even before doing dance music clubs downtown. I used to watch clips of Beyoncé to learn how to perform in front of people. I got my jitters out in front of my friends."
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"I love performing. There is an ego in me that loves to be in front of people."
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"I love intimacy, always, of performing."
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"I love performing live, especially when I get in the zone. But the studio is really becoming a place I have grown to love."
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"I was performing from the age of three."
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