But as a performer, and ultimately a writer, a poet, Maya Angelou found her voice.
British audiences know she has walked the walk as a performer in her own right.
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In 1920, a profile and a figure qualified a performer as much as mimetic talent.
Meryl Streep, nominated for "Doubt, " received her 15th nomination, a record for a performer.
Slava, as he was known, was a performer, a conductor, a teacher, and a mentor.
"I was always a little bit of a performer and a clown, even in my sport, " he says.
The property is private and far removed from my life as a performer.
It takes a performer who can at least empathize with Schumann's inner world.
She has been to Avery Fisher many times, but never as a performer.
All those years, while Maria was bantering with Cookie Monster, she was simultaneously inspiring little girls with dreams of becoming a performer.
All that said, it can be painfully clear when a performer (famous or not) is giving less than everything onstage.
All this is to say that Davidsbundlertanze takes far more than a sharp sense of rhythm and swing from a performer.
Deciphering a composer's intent (or trying to) not only stimulates Mr. Pollini as a performer, but also helps shape his inner life.
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It recommends that executives exude as much confidence and authority as they can muster, lest they "die" as a performer might onstage.
I. sounds less compelling when he strays from the theme, bending to tired hip-pop trends not befitting a performer of his stature.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden is nothing if not a performer.
Basil Foster, the jockey who acted as his mentor, noticed Jones's skill as a performer and encouraged him to pursue his acting career.
As a writer and as a performer, Springsteen is in command of a variety of themes and moods: comic and grandiose, political and mindless.
Apollo Robbins, a performer and expert in deception, takes advantage of that fact when playing card tricks and engaging in other trickery on the show.
But she happens not to be much of a performer and, in the first three episodes at least, we never get to see her surf.
Along with being a performer, Meyers is the show's head writer.
"But the whole time I've been a performer I've been interested in the interplay between the world of acting and the world of business, " he said.
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The Trudeau who became a visionary in his own country and a performer on the world stage seems to have been parochial as a young man.
In the episode featuring Michael Richards, his co-star of his legendary sitcom Seinfeld, Jerry says that doing a show is not about what a performer gets from it.
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After her parents' divorce, she moved to Paris with her mother which is where, as a teenager, she tested her mettle as a performer by busking on the streets.
And he was basically a, kind of, shy, introverted guy, but he, you know, and there was a necessity to be out there, to be a performer and to be extroverted.
Button is not therefore as reliable a performer as Hamilton or Alonso, who can always improvise some sort of performance from their cars, can always access most of what is there.
Mentioning it to one of the other performers in The Caves, I was told that a performer last year was constantly being "goosed" by a ghost, so it's obviously not unknown.
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