I didn't know what to expect, but [Alexander] Wang is a great guy. He's always invited me front row to shows, and I performed at a few of his after-parties.
I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little bit iffy because they were performing, a lot of times, for white audiences who found it hilarious.
No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.
. . . any effect to be successful must first be founded upon a simple method and then be performed with a direct to-the-point presentation.
Right before I went to Pacifica, I had written and performed a one-woman show and I consider that to be my original art form. Spaulding Grey and Karen Finley and other spoken word artists and performance artists really very much interested me, that art form.
Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.
An apology informed is good; an apology performed is better.
It was overwhelmingly beautiful to see my music performed.
The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.
One should express his viewpoint regarding what he performed in his country and in a vast part of the world with great respect and deep thought.
I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.
If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.
One of my biggest role models was David Beckham because of how he performed on and off the pitch.
I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.
When Caesar says, 'Do this', it is performed.