One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service.
Work diligently. Work hard. Focus. Perform as if you are at the Olympics. One day, unexpectedly, it will start paying off.
Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!
Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they weren't, I would have gotten rid of them.
And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.
I think that what we were doing with the live musical version of 'Shrek' was taking the ideas and the structure of the movie and not necessarily reinventing it but reimagining it. It is a very different medium to perform.
I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on the edge.
A person who is interrupted while performing a task takes 50% more time to complete it and make 50% more errors.
I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.
Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.
There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe.
So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.
As a kid, I loved leading 'dance camp' in my garage for the neighborhood kids. I would choreograph really intricate routines for us to perform. It was so much fun!
I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.
I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and a lack of performance.
I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.
I was admonished to adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.