My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no was around I'd kiss the screen.
LATE will always be the most important song to me. I used to struggle to perform it live without getting upset but have performed it a lot now, which has really helped. Very often it makes people in the audience cry, and that means so much to me that they can relate to the emotions in the song. It was actually a really easy song to write, I wrote most of it in one day. . . it sort of flowed out of me. I was never good with dealing with emotion, so I think I kind of needed to write it!
All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.
I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net.
I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.
The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. '
The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably.
I have performed many puppet and non-puppet characters in my career. Some I miss, some I do not. But when I miss them, I only miss performing them. The actual sweatiness of the fur and foam and fleece? Not so much.
I did Showtime at the Apollo when I was 10, and it was the first time that Id ever performed on TV, and it felt great.
The greater part performed achieves the less.
When Caesar says, 'Do this', it is performed.
"I'm a victim of sexual discrimination. " "No, you're the victim of a cruel sexual experiment performed by your mother and father.
Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.
Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
It was overwhelmingly beautiful to see my music performed.
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.
Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled.
Research performed on animals is, by definition, scientifically unsound.
And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of a Communist ideology that was explicitly atheistic? Who can dispute that they did their bloody deeds by claiming to be establishing a "new man" and a religion-free utopia? These were mass murders performed with atheism as a central part of their ideological inspiration, they were not mass murders done by people who simply happened to be atheist.
Animism is worth considering (a) because it exists, (b) because it addresses contemporary issues and debates, and (c) because it clarifies, in various ways, the argument that the project of modernity is ill-conceived and dangerously performed.