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All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.
Eugene H. Peterson
'All the believers I know are flawed, uncertain, and unreliable. We can be confident not by relying on our own ability but due to our trust in God's assurance of us.'
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You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.
Luke Bryan
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I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.
John Lone
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When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.
Shirley Temple
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Actors and magicians are both performers and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.
Steve Carell
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Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.
Charley Pride
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I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.
Lauren London
10.
Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.
Mick Jagger
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It's great to watch someone get the most out of what they can do, whether they're a beautiful performer or just a really gritty performer. It's something to behold.
John Turturro
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To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.
Elizabeth Bibesco
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I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.
David Bowie
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I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.
Richard Pryor
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I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.
Patti LaBelle
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If you look at high performers they are always the most passionate - in any industry.
Brendon Burchard
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I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.
Andy Goldsworthy
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More than an actor, I am a performer. I'm a great believer
Shahrukh Khan
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Something very rare in this day and age is to see performers do something that has never been done before.
Matt Hardy
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Most performers reinvent themselves. Madonna, Michael Jackson, P. Diddy. They reinvent themselves into different kinds of images. Elvis Presley was always himself, an original, and he never tried to be anything but that.
Pat Boone
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There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.
Dick Cavett
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
Nat King Cole
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I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.
Donald Fagen
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Grass probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer.
George Carlin
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There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.
Sandra Bernhard
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The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.
Linda Ronstadt
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Shawn Michaels is quite simply the greatest performer in WWE history.
Chris Jericho
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I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.
Tom Lehrer
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It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.
Harry Houdini
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Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.
Ciara
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It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.
Tilda Swinton
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I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.
Bobby Vinton
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George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.
Tom Waits
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Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.
Harry Houdini
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I sought a great performer who would deeply impress me, and I found Lior Suchard.
Uri Geller
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I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.
Patti Smith
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I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.
Mick Ronson
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I'm usually put off by performers when they get political
Tracey Ullman
43.
As a performer, I could be like, "I don't want to leave that in there." But as a producer, I have to leave it in there.
Karina Longworth
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If there's one big thing you can take from Amy Poehler as a performer, it's committing, full on.
Andy Daly
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Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
Bette Midler
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My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.
Bobby Darin
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I must say Ive always composed music from the point of view of the performers.
Walter Piston
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I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.
Wanda Jackson
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It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.
John Hurt