Sentence examples for to be performer from inspiring English sources

In the early nineteen-nineties, he would write in the margins of his copy of Alice Miller's "Drama of the Gifted Child" — with all the remorselessness of a grown man examining his childhood to try to figure out why he was such an unhappy thirty-something — that as a boy he had tried to be "what narcissistically deprived Mom wants you to be — performer".

All successful politicians have to learn how to be performers.

That means that good sketch-writers either have to be performers too or be associated with existing performers and appear in, for example, the Edinburgh fringe or Cambridge Footlights as a fait accompli in order to be "discovered".

It also allowed us to be more productive and freed us up to be performers.

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Barbara never wanted to be a performer.

Ms. Covington once feared it would be impossible to be a performer and build a family.

HT: I'm obviously pretty strongly driven to be a performer.

I told him, a bit weepily, that I didn't want to be a performer.

They were just around the corner from the street where he learned to be a performer.

"I always had the feeling I was born to be a performer".