Top 99 Quotes About Live Performance

#1. It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.

Gin Wigmore

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#2. The only difference with wrestling is we're like a live performance. So we're feeding off the audience and if they do't like something, they can let us know immediately.

Adam Cole

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#3. Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.

Mindy Kaling

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#4. We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

John Cale

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#5. I still get thrilled by the energy that is a live performance, the fear and the panic and the electricity that happens on the night. I think jolting myself every once in a while with that fear is a good thing for me.

Jane Krakowski

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#6. The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to say, I have fared quite well in my predictions.

Rodney Atkins

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#7. A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both.

Shreya Ghoshal

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#8. I like the energy of live performance.

Sandra Bernhard

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#9. One of the things I love about music is live performance.

Yo-Yo Ma

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#10. The real test of a musician is live performance. It's one thing to spend a long time learning how to play well in the studio, but to do it in front of people is what keeps me coming back to touring.

Neil Peart

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#11. When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.

Paul Lansky

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#12. Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

Jonathan Demme

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#13. A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.

Chris Jericho

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#14. I love watching live shows from different artists from different stages of their lives. I'm always interested in the mastery of the live performance.

Stjepan Hauser

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#15. I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.

Ian Anderson

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#16. Live performance has always been my thing. It's my purpose to master and capture the moment every time I have you connected.

Usher

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#17. Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment.

Jonathan Demme

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#18. I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.

Gareth Gates

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#19. There's nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I could not stress enough how little we [actors] prepare and what small amount of time we put in before these shows.

Amy Poehler

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#20. I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd donate the equipment for an online charity in Britain. I hated to part with my guitar, but it was for such a great cause.

Dan Hawkins

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#21. When I'm preforming a lot I'm aching to get back in the studio but I love live performance. I love trying to think on my feet and be spontaneous. I like doing that in a live show and I do the same thing in the studio.

Joel Plaskett

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#22. Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It's such a seismic shift really.

Arthur Fogel

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#23. I really love watching the 70s live performance TV series "The Midnight Special" and "The Old Grey Whistle Test". Those are the best performances you've ever seen, and they sound incredible.

Feist

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#24. I love live performance, but I am excited to try my hand at whatever comes my way.

Michael Stahl-David

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#25. Get out of your house and go see some live performance, for God's sake. There are people creating things just outside your window.

Maria Bamford

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#26. When somebody is making a movie about your life, that's different. A show is a live performance. Things are going to go wrong. You are going to get away with things. A movie is indelible. A movie is through a microscope.

Frankie Valli

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#27. I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

Bob Gunton

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#28. Keely's pulse quickened. A stab of apprehension. He was the same at any live performance, suddenly anxious for the players. So stupid; these people were professional muscicians. But the way his throat narrowed they could have all been kds at a school recital. His kids.

Tim Winton

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#29. For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.

Frank Black

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#30. I enjoy theatre tremendously, and there's nothing like a live performance.

Melanie Rawn

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#31. Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a live performance. If the material is strong, you're already 90% there. I always tell young people it's all about the music, the songs. Work on the songs, work on the songs, work on the songs.

Tom Petty

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#32. Every time I see a live performance of something, I'm like, 'I want to be doing that!'

Megan Hilty

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#33. Three languages - the video, the music and the live performance - are awesome to bring together.

Planningtorock

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#34. From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

Esther Dyson

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#35. I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.

Renee Fleming

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#36. The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.

Rob Paulsen

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#37. I grew up loving David Letterman and Pee-wee Herman, but as far as live performance comedy, all I knew were the Jerry Seinfeld-type comedians of the world, and that's what I thought live performance comedy was all about.

Scott Aukerman

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#38. When you take an energetic song and add it to one of the most energetic live performance set's you get pure mayhem ... which is what the fans want to see!

Machine Gun Kelly

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#39. Every acting gig isn't the same, every writing job isn't the same, every live performance isn't the same - the challenge is the level of difficulty or ease, and that may vary.

Ricky Jay

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#40. I think it's one of those things about live performance - anything goes, anything can happen, and you have to just be ready and able to roll with the punches.

Sara Bareilles

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#41. The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant.

Rosanne Cash

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#42. I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.

Idina Menzel

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#43. The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

Gwyneth Paltrow

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#44. In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.

Ian Anderson

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#45. I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.

Saul Williams

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#46. My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

Wiz Khalifa

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#47. It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it.

Steve Martin

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#48. I do an improv show on Sunday where we have a class, and then afterwards we go and do a live performance in front of an audience.

Nolan Gould

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#49. I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.

Zedd

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#50. I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

Sam Mendes

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#51. The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.

Cate Blanchett

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#52. There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I'll always have that.

Madonna Ciccone

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#53. I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.

John Fogerty

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#54. I love live performance and have huge admiration for people who can really do it. It's the same with music: I'll play a record and think that I'm not really into country or ragga. But, if it's live and the musicians are good, I'll listen to pretty much anything.

Helen McCrory

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#55. It's great to do theater and have the live response and know what that can bring to a performance. I like to juggle as many mediums as I can.

Rose McIver

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#56. I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.

Adam Lambert

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#57. The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

William Irwin Thompson

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#58. There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance.

Chad Smith

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#59. I've always enjoyed and loved playing live. I relish and cherish it more than anything else because you never know what the performance is going to be.

Elton John

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#60. I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

Yani Tseng

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#61. Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing live only in private clubs and at charity events, where she presumably believed the pressure on her was less intense.

Scott Stossel

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#62. I strive for perfection, but of course it can never be perfect. I'm never satisfied at the end of a performance. But the great thing about live theatre is that every night you get another chance to get it right.

Anthony Warlow

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#63. I have a company in the U.K., a performance-capture studio. We're looking to push the boundaries of performance-capture technology in film and video games, but also in live theater, using real-time performance capture with actors onstage, and combining that with holographic imagery.

Andy Serkis

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#64. For me, some of the happiest moments on a live-action film are the awkward moments. One actor says something to another actor. They didn't expect that performance from that actor; that affects their return performance.

Gore Verbinski

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#65. We now live in a time when PEOPLE and profits must become equally valuable in the corporate leaders Mindset.
Rethink your Leadership Culture to become a conscious, high performance organisation

Tony Dovale

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#66. A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.

Briana Scurry

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#67. A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.

Nathan Lane

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#68. On 'Saturday Night Live,' I never really wrote. You know, I would just - I would let the writers cast me into the show. So my strength - and I put all my energies into performance. I just couldn't deal with the rejection, you know, getting your sketches cut, and it was hard for me.

Tracy Morgan

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#69. The schizophrenic in the sleeping bag with a live chicken and a can of tomato soup spilling onto the sidewalk had no right to steal my street performance.

Jarod Kintz

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#70. I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

Mike Figgis

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#71. As soon as you do it, actors realize there is no difference playing a performance-captured role or a live-action role.

Andy Serkis

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#72. So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see.

Alice Cooper

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#73. The great lesson in theatre is that you live the story every night, and that is a wonderful vehicle for getting to the richest places in a performance or investing a character with the richest life.

Celia Weston

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#74. I have discovered that I cannot enhance anybody's performance without getting them not only to live with the butterflies that come with high-pressure jobs but to embrace that kind of physical response, enjoy it, get into it. That's the first real ticket to being a performer who thinks exceptionally.

John Eliot

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#75. Resilience is cultivated not so that we can perform well in a single instance, but so that we can live a full and flourishing life.

Eric Greitens

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#76. I do pay performance royalties on others' songs I perform live, but I'm not recording these songs and putting them up for sale.

Prince

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#77. If you are not moved by the character, no amount of CGI will give you a performance that is emotionally engaging or devastating - what a live-action performance does.

Andy Serkis

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#78. I'm also always thinking about the score as a recording, as opposed to a performance that can be recreated in a live environment. Some of what I write could of course be played in a concert hall, but for the needs of a film I don't consider that.

Geoff Zanelli

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#79. For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.

Andy Serkis

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#80. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

Theodore Roosevelt

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#81. Law is for the society; love is for the individual. Law is how you behave with others; love is how you behave with yourself. Love is an inner flowering; law is an outward performance. Because you live with people you have to be lawful, but that is not enough - good, but not enough.

Rajneesh

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#82. I've done a lot of films that are purely live-action roles, and even if I hadn't come across performance capture as a technology, I think I'd always consider myself a sort of mercurial actor.

Andy Serkis

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#83. As leaders, we're giving out grades in every encounter we have with people. We can choose to give out grades as an expectation to live up to, and then we can reassess them according to performance. Or we can offer grades as a possibility to live into. The second approach is much more powerful.

Benjamin Zander

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#84. I love the stage, it's my first love - but, it's gone. You do your performance, then it's a memory. It only lives in the moment.

Ruthie Henshall

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#85. If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ... its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.

Leo Tolstoy

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#86. I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.

Andy Serkis

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#87. There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback.

Chris Jordan

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#88. What if Theater was the Pong of the the digital Ping?
A place where the live experience has an function?

Natasha Tsakos

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#89. All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.

George Thorogood

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#90. I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

Taylor Swift

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#91. The room was the poem, the day I was in. Oh Christ. What writes my poem is the second ring, inner or outer. Poetry is just the performance of it. These little things, whether I write them or not. That's the score. The thing of great value is you. Where you are, glowing and fading, while you live.

Eileen Myles

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#92. Anyway, in my performance style, I'm a singer-songwriter. People can call it neo-soul or R&B or whatever. But at the core, when you see me live, I'm a singer-songwriter.

India.Arie

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#93. Seeing babies and little children smile or even just be inquisitive about a bottle cap isnpires me. Watching a great performance, particularly live or in the moment. My favorite actor at the moment is the three-time Tony Award-winning Mark Rylance. Makes me work to be better.

Graham Shiels

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#94. The fact of the matter is that an actor, if I'm playing a performance capture role and you're playing a live action role and we're having a scene together, there's no difference in our acting processes.

Andy Serkis

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#95. When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playing live, you interact with people and you feel the energy in the room. When the crowd is going crazy, that definitely impacts your vocal performance. I prefer to sing live.

Marina And The Diamonds

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#96. To make a great movie is such a combination of different things that need to come into play to actually make a memorable film and not have a film to fall by the wayside, to have something live on during the years, and one of those elements is the commitment the actors have to their performance.

Edward Zwick

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#97. The longer I live the more I mistrust
theatricality, the false glamour cast
by performance, the more I know its poverty beside
the truths we are salvaging from
the splitting-open of our lives.
-from Transcendental Etude

Adrienne Rich

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#98. I've always been a huge fan of theatre and performance. The idea of just the human voice and just this night. Live music is the same. They're doing it for you right now. It's an amazing thing. And if you perform a story properly, it can be a transporting, too.

T.C. Boyle

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#99. Confidence ... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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