Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Playing Quotes from famous persons: Beyonce Knowles, Gary Woodland, Mike D, Min Jin Lee, Katherine Ryan. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Playing Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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I’m not a Method actor. I don’t believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I’m playing a blind man, I don’t go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don’t go in for that very much. I like to just make it up as I go along.
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I was into playing American music, especially the blues.
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I do enjoy the Scottish way of playing football.
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Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.
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I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. ‘Hey, man, what are you playing?’ ‘Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I’m performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!’
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I remember the reason why did I start my golf. We had a four day game I was playing for Trinidad against the Leeward Islands. They had in their ranks Winston Benjamin, Curtly Ambrose and Kenneth Benjamin. To add to it, the track was a green top. The four day game lasted two days, so I had two days to play golf.
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I was a kid living in New Jersey, who – I’d wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn’t even really into jazz that much.
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Playing a character who’s dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.
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I just stopped playing. I did some screenwriting and got into the nature thing. Music kind of went away.
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So you can’t judge the character you’re playing ever.
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You get rid of the mistakes by playing hard.
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I’ve never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn’t use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.
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I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I’m a tomboy at heart, too.
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Playing my drums is therapy.
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I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.
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You can’t just drop everything and focus on playing video games for a living.
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Along the way, let’s never forget that once we were children and that we were all playing together without distinction of skin color, society level, or where people come from. Adults need to remember to play and to be more childlike in our behavior. We’ve forgotten what that childlike experience was like.
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I’m really into playing games on my phone.
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As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
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I was lucky enough to grow up in an era when radio was less formatted. It was really special. You could hear a jazz song then a pop song then a show tune then some jazz. Basically, whatever the DJ felt like playing, he would play. He was educating you and exposing you to things you would never hear otherwise.
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The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I’ve maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I’m proudest of. And I’m still playing on people’s records and singing on people’s records.
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Personally, I’ve found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.
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Whether you’re playing sports, starting a business or anything else in life, you need to identify your talents. Your responsibility is to find what you do better than anyone else. Once you identify what that is, you need to put yourself in the best position to succeed.
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For some guys, playing for the team will mean achieving more personally.
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But in those days – in the mid-’50s, early ’60s – there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn’t full time.
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A DJ can’t just play one song. It’s about playing a set, or how you connect songs in those two hours, and where you place them.
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I can’t keep playing 10-11 months a year and keep being sharp after 15 years of international cricket.
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Playing drums is how I communicate. It’s how I speak to people. That’s my God-given gift.
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We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually challenging. We needed somewhere to put our energy to show that we were growing, and as we started to achieve this, people came to hear us musically.
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It drives me crazy when guys making $30 million are complaining about playing basketball two days in a row.
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The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you’re playing.
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I think the reason that I like so many different games is because I like the way my brain works when I’m playing games. It’s more fun.
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I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.
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When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They’re playing the sprint. They’re not worried about lifetime value and retention. They’re worried about short-term goals.
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Social media is one of the hardest things about playing for England.
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It was a great time here in the States this year, and definitely I feel like I’m playing well again. I gained a lot of confidence in the last couple of weeks, and I just have to, you know, keep going and keep the momentum now.
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I got a lot of the greatest values in life from playing sports, from playing football – teamwork, sportsmanship, my work ethic, resiliency, dedication – I got it all by being on a team.
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I wish to clarify that I have absolutely not made a decision regarding my participation in the next Olympics. On a personal level, playing in the Olympics would be a huge honour. However, the Games in Rio are still four years away and I certainly won’t be making any decisions with regards to participating any time soon.
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Time flies. Especially when you have a great time, when you’re winning and the team is playing great.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.
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For nearly eight decades, I’ve had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.
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When you get to that level, it’s not a matter of talent anymore – because all the players are so talented – it’s about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.
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Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It’s about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it’s about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
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While everyone was out playing dodgeball, I was lying on the blacktop waiting for a UFO to take me out of elementary school.
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When I’m retired someday, when I’m done playing football, that’s when I’ll be relaxing and look back at some things.
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It is very exciting to be playing in the Champions League because it is the dream of every player in the world.
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Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
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You want to stop playing ‘Fortnite,’ man, because you aren’t having fun anymore? Good. Go watch someone else. Go play another game.
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That’s the philosophy that we have always had. Going and playing in front of people and leaving an impressive from that standpoint.
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I don’t care who you are, if you’re not feeling anxious before playing in a final, you’re not a real person. I don’t care who you are.
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I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.
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I don’t know what I’m going to do tomorrow. I just know for sure I’m going to keep playing basketball.
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I didn’t start playing football a lot until I was in high school. I played it in seventh and eighth grade, but I didn’t play Pop Warner or anything.
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I started out playing ‘Chopsticks.’
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In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it’s a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion.
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When I’m creating a character, I don’t see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.
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To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.
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Milestones have never really meant a lot. They probably will mean more when I’ve finished playing and actually reflect on what I have achieved.
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I’m ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed – I can’t do it. I’m clueless.
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My foundation is acoustic guitar, and it is finger-picking and all of that and sort of an orchestral style of playing. Lead guitar came later, more out of the necessity to do so because of expectations in a particular situation.
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When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it’s been great.
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I wouldn’t say I’m a Method actor, but I do try to focus very deeply on what character I’m playing, and everything else goes out the window. I forget about everything. I try to get everything else out of my head.
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When I work alone, and I’m in my studio, and I’m playing a lot of the stuff myself, I think the style of it becomes something a little different.
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When I was playing in the Ajax youth teams – when I was, say, 14, 15 – you started to get all those international youth tournaments. All those English teams came. Well, the English were much further than we were.
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Once you get on the playing field it’s not about whether you’re liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That’s what it’s about.
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My father believed that the higher you put your goal, the higher you reach. That was the main reason me and my sisters were playing mostly against male competitors.
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There is no bigger motivation than playing in a UEFA Champions League final.
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I’m amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.
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The show is ’12 Monkeys,’ and I’m playing the role that Bruce Willis played in the original film ’12 Monkeys.’ It is a show about time travel. My character is from a future post-apocalypse, and he has been given a mission to go back in time to essentially set things right and stop the apocalypse. No big deal.
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I started EWF because I had a vision, and music was playing in my head that I wanted to bring through. What I had in mind was exactly what Earth, Wind & Fire became.
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If you don’t know the blues… there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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There’s some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it’s a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.
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So, I am concentrating more on the batting aspect of my game and trying to get used to playing the anchor role.
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I received many offers – namely from Real Madrid, Manchester United, and Milan – but I preferred the tranquillity of playing for Fiorentina.
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Maybe I was accepted to Harvard only because of my tennis skills, since I definitively had no great academic achievements. I was 17 and only thought about surfing and playing tennis. I had almost never left Rio de Janeiro and had never been to the United States.
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You know, I’ve been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.
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Playing games is the best time of your life, and the more games you get, the better it is.
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For me, playing a chubby or fat superhero was so special because I would go and watch these movies with my friends and would never see anyone like me. I am excited to be that for other kids who look like me.
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It’s always nice seeing a stadium when it’s full, and as players, that’s what we want to be playing in front of.
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If I am playing a game, I want to give my best, and that’s the only thing that helps me sleep peacefully at night.
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Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.
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I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.
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During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, ‘Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?’ And it pushes you a little bit harder during that off-season to work to try to get there the following year.
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I loved the idea of playing this naughty old bag, offering her own explanation. It’s my idea of heaven.
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It’s impossible for me to dissociate the risk of playing football from the risk of C.T.E.
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To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.
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Some people in our business want to play young as long as you can. I just wasn’t interested in being a 30-year-old playing a teenager.
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I don’t like playing to guitar players, actually. I’d rather just play to ordinary people.
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I’ve been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I’ve had with the Foo Fighters – playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It’s amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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I suffer from anxiety, moments of depression. I’m in my head so much, and I’m thinking so much, I’m playing a tug-of-war within my mind.
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Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you’re listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.
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I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to… It’s a whole different lens you look through the older you get.
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There are plenty of skills I’ve learned from playing video games. It’s more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you’re using your brain.
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If I hadn’t done the PUP video, I probably wouldn’t be playing music right now.
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When I stopped playing, I gave up exercising and put on some weight.
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Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.
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When you’re playing, it’s important to focus 100 per cent on what you’re doing.
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Conducting is a natural way to participate in one’s own music. Almost every 19th-century composer Mendelssohn, Mahler was conducting or playing his own music. Mozart did both.
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It’s very important for me to try to relax when I’m travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.
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Building infrastructure is our most powerful tool to create jobs and improve the playing field for all businesses.
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I discovered my love for dancing when I was barely 5-6 years of age. Whenever I would hear any music playing, I would automatically groove to it.
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I just love playing guitar, so that’s what I’m going to do.
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There’s a difference between fair game and playing games.
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You sit on the bench in the Premier League for one week, you could be playing for the rest of the season if the No. 1 at that time had a bad game.
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I haven‘t spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.
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Dreaming means ‘rehearsing‘ what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now.
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When I’m playing football I’m switched off to everything else – it frees my mind.
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We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women‘s sports, but we didn’t ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country.
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City are playing for first place in the Premier League, and that is what I want.
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What attracted me to Jimmy Bulger were the various facets of his personality and his humanity because I felt that the only way I could approach playing a character like him was to find his human side first and then map that out to see where it took the turn. He was a very complicated man.
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When I’m making video games today, I want people to be entertained. I am always thinking, How are people going to enjoy playing the games we are making today? And as long as I can enjoy something other people can enjoy it, too.
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I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn’t my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.
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My first job was with The O’Jays playing drums.
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The old-timers schooled me good. They brainwashed me to respect music, whether we were playing rockabilly or blues or rock and roll.
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I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.
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At the end of the day, when I kick back with some barbecue and a CokeZero in front of a blockbuster film playing within the convenience of my fully air-conditioned house, I’ll say a small prayer thanking God for the American culture.
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You’re playing worse and worse every day and right now you’re playing like it’s next month.
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I was always taught, even as a kid, playing against grown men, you get better.
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When I was nine or ten, I had a chat with my coach and I asked if I could play in goal. I started playing as a goalkeeper and it was love at first sight. Only a goalkeeper knows how it is.
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My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
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Part of what makes college football great is what you learn playing it. Being selfless, learning how to go through adversity as a group, learning about perseverance.
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It is going to be difficult for the West Indies to get back to the top, but we got to start somewhere, and if playing young players is the way we have decided to go, these young players must be given the chance to mature and develop and not be discarded at an early age.
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I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I’m going to just keep going.
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Playing a sinner is very liberating!
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I like books that aren’t just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.
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I am enjoying playing English football. It is very beautiful. With every game I play, I feel more comfortable.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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When you’re playing first base, you help the infielders a lot. They appreciate you when you pick their ball. It’s fun to help that.
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Everybody besides my piano player has been with me since the very first day. We were a four-piece band for a solid two years. It was me playing acoustic and rhythm electric guitar, a bass player, a drummer and a lead guitar player. For a couple of years, we sounded like the Foo Fighters.
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I feel comfortable on and off the court, happy in my own skin, just really comfortable with the way I’m playing my tennis.
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Highbridge – everybody rap in Highbridge; everyone grew up rappin’ or playing basketball.
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I go to the studio every day, but I don’t paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things.
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I am not saying that I am at the same level as Messi or Ronaldo. They are the best two players in the world, but I am very proud that I managed to finish above them in the goalscoring charts, especially as I was playing for Atletico Madrid, not Barcelona or Real Madrid.
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When you go out on to that field it’s going to be war. Sportsmanship is playing to the best of your abilities and then, afterwards, shaking your opponent’s hand.
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As far as playing, I didn’t care who guarded me – red, yellow, black. I just didn’t want a white guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game.
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Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are ‘holes‘ and ‘bank‘ and ‘caps.’ But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow.
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To a degree and If I’m playing a game, I do my best to win.
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You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
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Football’s a part of me. If I’m not playing, then I’m not me.
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I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.
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I’m playing dark history. It’s beyond black. I’m dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.
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When this genre of music started in America, Metallica was up north in California, we were in Southern California, Anthrax was on the East Coast. We each developed our own metal music, and after 30 years, we’re still playing our metal music.
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We’re all just playing our own game. I don’t see it as a rivalry. We’re just trying to play our best.
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I am playing the violin, that’s all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.
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Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I’m a gamer, always have been.
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Playing in arenas, that’s very non-personal with the crowd.
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I’ve been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I’ll take a break and play online Scrabble. My favorite word as a child was ‘carrion,’ before I knew what it meant. I later created crossword puzzles, which was a lot about puns, and how words would create these strange, strange things.
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I’m very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned from playing to those drummers.
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I’m just more into playing golf. It’s a great thing.
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I knew Portuguese football and I knew that Rio Ave was a medium-sized club but I also knew they are organised off the pitch. We felt that we could achieve something special playing in a different way.
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Playing at Wembley will be the realization of a dream.
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The No. 1 thing the people I have spent time with in my life have done for fun is playing music.
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Julia Roberts most definitely would play me in the film of my life. Not just because of the hair but because she has all sides to her personality come through in films that I could just imagine her playing my crazy self so well.
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I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything.
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I love playing for Wales.
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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These guys who keep on playing but aren’t winning, you’ve got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves.
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My dad just wants me to dedicate myself to playing and to focus on the ball.
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Liverpool are not used to playing a 16-and-a-half stone striker.
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It’s difficult when you’re not out there. I guess not playing for a while, you can definitely be a little moody.
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After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.
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I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don’t even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they’re all Jelly Roll style.
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It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.
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To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
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I’m not really a redhead, but I keep playing these redhead actresses. Which I don’t mind; I think it’s fun.
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I like having parties where we bring in the girls, and we have a good DJ playing good music that makes the girls dance.
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Well, I didn’t really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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I’m not going to lie: not playing football will be very difficult for me.
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I would never do ‘Dancing With The Stars,’ because it’s just not fair. I am too good of a dancer. It would be like LeBron James playing little league basketball.
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It’s the group sound that’s important, even when you’re playing a solo.
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In the barber shop you start playing checkers, and eventually you want to learn how to play chess. The pieces look a little more interesting. You’re doing more things. I’m pretty good at it.
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Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you’re playing a tender love story that’s set in a coffee shop or whether you’re in ‘The Avengers,’ which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.
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If you’re sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that’s entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it’s the storytelling. That’s why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.
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When I’m playing, I’m never through. It’s unfinished. I like to find a place to leave for someone else to finish it. That’s where the high comes in.
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The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.
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Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the life of a footballer, and I guess that is true across most sports now.
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I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.
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Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It’s my life… it’s been my life, all my life, and I don’t think it could ever become boring for me.
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When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
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I train all week just to play for 90 minutes. I love playing games, and so during those 90 minutes, it’s always 100 per cent.
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Having drive is a big part of success, along with integrity. You need to have a clear vision of what you want and take the steps to achieve it, even if that sometimes means playing gigs in tiny clubs.
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I spent six years touring the world playing Shakespeare, Molire, Shaw, Goldsmith… But I slowly came to realise that the people you are working with are as important as the parts you play, and that there were lots of interesting people working in film and T.V.
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A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for granted that someone would lead him to it. The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves.
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.
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I’ve been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It’s not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on ‘Hawaii Five-0′ originated on the wrong side of the law, I’d say he’s worked his way over to the good side.
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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.
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I grew up in Oxnard, CA, and I went to a church called St. Paul, where I was playing drums. My mom had a strawberry company. The whole town of Oxnard is basically built on produce, and more particularly, strawberries.
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Everything is very black and white for me. I don’t really like playing mind games.
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We in the Negro leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing. We played with a round ball, and we played with a round bat. And we wore baseball uniforms, and we thought that we were making a contribution to baseball. We loved the game, and we liked to play it.
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Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn’t thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I’m just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn’t paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.
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I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn’t allowed to play my drums for a whole week… We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.
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I wasn’t a kid who won every tournament I was playing, and I think that helped me – it motivated me a lot to know what it felt like not to win.
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I don’t want my kids to be on the streets period. I want my kids to be nerds. I want them to be book smart or playing sports – I don’t want them to know nothing about the streets.
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I started playing guitar kind of by accident.
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I don’t mind playing absolute bastards… I just don’t want to play the grouch.
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To me, God comes first, my family come second. If I fail at those two, I’m just playing games.
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That is what a good manager does – you study and think and discuss, and you come up with a model of playing.
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I don’t think healthcare‘s a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
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Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology – looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.
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If you don’t like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?
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People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don’t know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.
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I’ve been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.
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I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don’t think about it is when I’m playing it.
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Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant – even if they wanted to be one?
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Listening to my dad playing guitar along to ‘Sleepwalk’ by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music.
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I like something simple and traditional, like dinner and a movie. The best way to get to know someone is to have a conversation over dinner. And steak houses have a nice atmosphere – the lights are dim, and they usually have a band playing.
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If you’re paid before you walk on the court, what’s the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
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In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
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Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
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From one week to the next, everything changes from who you’re playing to the defense‘s scheme. You just try to build on the things that you did well and correct the things that you did poorly in the game; then, move forward from there and hopefully continue to get better and better and better as you move forward.
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From the first album I’m playing bass on a lot of the tunes, and piano on a lot of ’em, and drums, and guitars. I did that on almost every album.
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I always wanted to be a pro athlete. When I was younger I wanted to be the first person to be a pro at three different sports, but then realized how impossible that is. At 15 I stopped playing other sports and focused on tennis.
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I like to play cards. I’m not very good, because I don’t want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I’ve learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.
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I start from one point and go as far as possible. But, unfortunately, I never lose my way. I ‘localize,’ which is to say that I think always in a given space. I rarely think of the whole of a solo, and only very briefly. I always return to the small part of the solo that I was in the process of playing.
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Whenever I’m stressed out or having a bad day, the one thing that gets me happy or back into like a good place of mind is being on the golf course. I love being out there, especially really early in the morning getting the first tee time out and just playing by myself. It’s so peaceful.
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These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.
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I was the biggest tomboy growing up. Now I love playing with a full face of makeup.
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Don’t walk through life just playing football. Don’t walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone’s life, that’s the ultimate vision, that’s the ultimate goal – bottom line.
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When I was with the Yankees in 1978, we were playing Baltimore at Yankee Stadium, and the score was 3 – 3 going into the bottom of the ninth inning. I led off against Tippy Martinez – a little left-hander who always gave me trouble – and the count went to three-and-oh.
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Whether I’m playing right now or not, I still have an opportunity to get better in practice. It’s like sharpening my blade.
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.
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I’ve been performing since I was in high school, so I’ve seen people react to my music and my playing. I’m always appreciative when people like the music, but I’m not shocked.
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If you’re going to play at all, you’re out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.
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I started playing football on the streets; I grew up playing football on the streets with my friends, and that’s why I was brought up the way I was. That’s the school I had – the street football.
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Everybody is playing games. There are games now for pretty much every age, every demographic.
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Playing live is one thing. Playing under a microscope is another.
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I actually prefer playing as a left winger rather than a striker, but I just want to be very clear that I’m willing to play in either position.
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There’s only one way to prepare for playing beach volleyball, and that’s by getting in the sand.
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I realise that every time my face is on TV or I’m playing in a tournament, that I am a role model for a lot of people and a lot of kids do look up to me. I try to do my best in that regard and put myself across as honestly and as modestly as possible, as well.
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I just like playing with the band and doing what I do.
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I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.
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When I was growing up, you didn’t know there was a women’s national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.
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It seems like people want to blame me for everything. Whenever any issue arises, I’m said to have been involved even if I’ve had nothing to do with it. That’s why I always focus on what I know, which is playing football, and try to be very careful with what I say because people always try and twist things.
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My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that’s the truth. And my goal is the same – it’s to always be happy playing, it’s to enjoy the game and improve always.
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My first memories are playing soccer for Carlingford Redbacks with my stepdad as the coach.
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The youth are very important to me, they’re the next generation, but I want to instill in kids, even in playing, that it’s never too late and there’s no right or wrong way to do anything.
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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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It’s fun playing villains. It’s people who are not held by any moral constraints – or any constraints, for that matter. It’s a chance to be completely off the leash and do things that you never could in real life.
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Playing drums, for me, is like breathing. It’s like thinking. It’s like eating. It’s like walking.
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I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with Charles, Michael Jordan and Roy Green, and Charles was talking so much trash. On every shot, he was talking trash. So I left the tournament, and I went and practiced for a year and half.
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The Championship’s a tough division, a strong league. Playing in this league, I’m improving and still think I can get to a higher level, definitely, and play more consistent.
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I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of ‘Performance’ called ‘The Entertainer‘ with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.
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I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn’t really like playing in goal.
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We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
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Playing my music to fans and people enjoying it is what matters; that makes me happy as an artiste. If you start worrying about awards, you will lose your creativity.
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Life isn’t fair. It’s true, and you still have to deal with it. Whining about it rarely levels the playing field, but learning to rise above it is the ultimate reward.
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I’m not angry, I’m not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I’m more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.
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It’s like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it’s to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn’t say that, but I believe that this is the only instrument I can really feel happy about playing.
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You only grow old when you stop playing.
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I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it’s like out there.
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My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.
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Kobe Bryant was the reason I started playing basketball – always was and will be my favorite player of all time. I love the way he could get his shot off, his footwork down in the post, just his determination to be the best player.
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Be the best teammate you can be, be the best player you can be, and just be as supportive and encouraging for the people who are playing.
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Nothing can be better than playing a Maharashtrian character in a Rohit Shetty film.
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Playing a stadium is a big adrenaline boost for me and I dig it. It keeps me on my toes and makes me revamp everything I’m doing and not get stagnant with how I approach every show, which is something I like.
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When I die, just keep playing the records.
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When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.
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I’m gonna have some nights when it’s not gonna come. But if you keep playing natural, it’s just gonna come. I’m gonna keep getting better, keep getting better, and one day, everything’s gonna pay off.
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Going back to your country and playing for a big team and being able to enjoy playing La Liga would be a good thing for my career.
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I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they’re so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That’s why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can’t figure that out.
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It’s much like playing jazz, flying. It’s multitasking in real time. You have a number of instruments that alone won’t tell you exactly what the airplane is doing but together give you a picture of everything that’s going on.
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I don’t know if I am cut out to playing a bad character or not – I really should give it a shot. I would like to play the voice of a baddie, but that’s really just a cop-out!
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I was acting when I was playing baseball.
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I love playing games, but also training.
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Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.
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People were not ready to accept me as a baseball player. The easiest part of that whole thing, chasing the Babe‘s record, was playing the game itself. The hardest thing was after the game was over, dealing with the press. They could never understand.
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I certainly miss playing piano, and I really wish I did it more – it’s really a very therapeutic thing to do for me. I just need to be home for more than a few minutes to be able to play more, I guess.
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My father taught me poker at a very young age and I’ve been playing for money since I was 14 years old.
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I have no problems with my eyes. It was because when I became big, I suddenly I found myself playing on stage with 200,000 people, and that is scary. I remember my manager told me just put on a pair of sunglasses, and that should mitigate the panic. So I tried it, and it worked.
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I’ve spent my whole life playing football. My father didn’t want me to play rugby because he felt it was very hard on the body, so at school, I was encouraged to play football, and that’s where everything started.
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I love music – in my playing days, I was always the team DJ.
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Football was always my dream. I started playing at the age of five, and I’m still playing now.
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Coming out as nonbinary was a response to a lot of criticism I got when it leaked that I’d be playing a nonbinary character on ‘Steven Universe.’ I never really had the words like nonbinary or gender fluid or gender nonconforming until after ‘Drag Race’ and that’s when I first started identifying publicly as nonbinary.
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It’s been years and years and years I’ve been playing the drums, and they’re still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.
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I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don’t know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.
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My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
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As a youngster, you normally have to play. How will you be one of the best not playing?
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Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to the audience, to let them know what it would be like to be inside my head.
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I don’t think people can watch University of Texas basketball or football games with me – really, anything Texas is playing – without wanting to punch me in the face. I’m as big a Longhorn fan as you’ll find.
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My brother was a huge Tim Kerr fan. He loved the way Kerr would power to the net, and he related to that playing style.
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I tried to find a solution to the problem that I had, tried to find a way to start playing better.
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Games bring another level out in you. There is no way you can train to the same intensity when you are playing a game. It is just impossible. Your head won’t allow you to do it. Because the adrenalin of a game and the importance of it steps it up to another level.
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Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It’s a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.
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I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn’t speak English and I couldn’t speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations – that’s why we got married really quickly.
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I like playing music because it’s a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can’t feed my family with satisfaction.
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I’m playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.
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It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.
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My restlessness leaves my mind racing as I try to wind down at the end of mandatory recovery day. It keeps me tossing after poor performances. And if I played well, well… playing well makes me itch to play better; there is always room for improvement.
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I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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I’m in show business, and we have a long history here of making movies about law enforcement officers. If you’re my age, and you’re male, and you’re trying to get work, you’re going to run into those roles as opposed to having a long run of playing dancers.
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The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it’s been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them – blogs, say, or Wikipedia – can become influential.
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You’re playing a game, whether it’s Little League or Game 7 of the Word Series. It’s impossible to do well unless you’re having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there’s pressure. But I just look at it as fun.
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As you get older, and this is a young man‘s game, and people say, ‘Well, there’s no way I can keep up running the way I’m running; there’s no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.’ It’s the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
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I make a living playing rock n’ roll. I’m not going to complain about anything.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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I really want to bring ensemble playing back to the forefront – not just for me, but for everyone in jazz. When you have a group, a true co-op group, you can really heighten the possibilities of all the treasures of jazz.
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Going to the Super Bowl is not the reward. It’s playing really well and winning.
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Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field – no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.
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As a kid, I dreamed of playing in a warm land with a swimming pool.
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I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.
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If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.
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Of course, I’ve always dreamed of playing in the Premier League.
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I got spoiled on ‘Breaking Bad.’ Playing the same guy for four or five seasons, you get to really explore who the character is.
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
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My pure love is playing music.
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Anytime you’re telling a story about monsterhood, you’re playing around with ideas about otherness and alienation.
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I played rugby until I was 15, 16 and I eventually had to say, ‘No, I have to choose one’ and it was obviously going to be football, I miss playing rugby a lot.
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I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.
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I’ve always been a bit shy, especially in new situations. But I have that other side in me too. Cricket demands that you grow up fast. Playing in domestic tournaments as an overseas player, you’re expected to score runs and bring a lot to the group. And I expect that of myself.
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The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.
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I like the adrenaline of playing improv – it makes me feel really calm.
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If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that’s concentration.
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I remember as a young player I had this dream of playing in the NBA.
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If the role is challenging enough, I don’t see why I shouldn’t play an older man or a father figure. It is not about playing what you are in real life. We are called actors for a reason!
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Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream.
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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.
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I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that’s all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I’m supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.
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Cogsworth, the character I did on ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ could be a bit flamboyant onscreen, because basically, he is a cartoon. But they didn’t want Cogsworth to become Disney‘s gay character, because it got around a gay man was playing him.
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There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.
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I believe there’s no reason why we couldn’t be entering a new age of musical theater if we continue to nurture young talent, take risks, and give them a playing field.
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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
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We need to create a level regulatory playing field. It makes no sense for Internet giants like Google, Facebook, and Twitter to be allowed to buy newspapers while a small AM radio station is prohibited from purchasing its local paper.
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If I didn’t love tennis, I wouldn’t be playing. That’s also why I don’t know how long I will be playing because if I start feeling like this is not what I want to do anymore, that there’s not really any reason anymore.
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I like my kind of innate and natural ability in the pocket, and ability of anticipation, and all that stuff that’s important when it comes to playing quarterback.
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The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role – I was playing dress-up a bit.
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We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.
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Whenever I start to really think about what I’m playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn’t there.
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I’ve never liked playing golf. I prefer to be on the treadmill to keep in shape.
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Every second I’m on the pitch for Wales is an honour, and I love playing.
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Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist – whatever.
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It was playing on the varzea where I learned to be a warrior, to fight for every ball, and then to never give it away.
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If you’re playing for 10 or 15 years, you can’t every week run six option plays. It can be around. It can be a part of the game, but sooner or later you’ve got to deliver the ball from the pocket. That’s the game. Now, if the game changes, and it’s proven a championship can be won from the pistol spread, then I’m wrong.
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I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.
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When you’re playing for Real Madrid, even when you’re playing well, you’re under scrutiny.
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I always liked having a good time. I got into this business because I got fired from any job I ever had because I stayed out late playing music.
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Acting is playing pretend, playing a children’s game at an adult level, but with children’s rules. It’s fun to play bad guys. I’ve never been in a fight in my life, so it’s fun to play something that’s different.
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Americans are fighters. We’re tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no one – no one can stop us.
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God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play.
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I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I’ve become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play.
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Playing live is a lost art, and you don’t see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It’s a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.
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Musicians playing together, it’s a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.
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If you are playing a Hispanic character who has to speak in dialect or in an accent, nail that dialect or accent. When I hear a character that’s supposed to be Cuban speaking with a Mexican accent or vice versa, it grates on me and immediately pulls me out of the story.
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I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
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I had big shoes to fill, but the way we have been playing has made the transition easy.
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The beauty of where I’m from – this small little town called Wallburg, North Carolina – I didn’t have a TV; I was out playing ball with my dad, shooting clay pigeons.
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I’m just a lad playing for Liverpool, trying to achieve his dream, so to see a lad with my name on his shirt – when I grew up having the names of other players on my shirt – it meant a lot.
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I’m finally my dad’s favourite because Kevin Costner is playing him.
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I like playing the villain role.
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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Considering Messi’s quality and everything he represents, I don’t think I’ve seen him playing with a guy following him around the pitch the entire time with the sole purpose of not letting him play.
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Basically, radio hasn’t changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues – communicating with an audience.
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I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.
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I just like to be in my zone, playing football.
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I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That’s what I want to do.
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I would have dreams all the time about me playing in the NFL. Every day I woke up, I said to myself, you know, I’m going to work hard, you know, this day to get to that next level.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys ’cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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It was a normal childhood, like the childhoods of all children my age: going to school, playing in the street with friends, spending time at home with my family.
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When I step forward on the floor, I have the confidence that I’m the best player playing that night and that I am the most prepared at what I need to be doing.
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As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.
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My first influences for playing were Johnny Ramone and Jimmy Page, the same as everybody else. Joe Perry. The guys in Alice Cooper‘s band, whatever their names were. Mick Ronson from David Bowie. You know who really influenced me to write songs? Iron Maiden.
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing – doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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I’ve learned a lot from being a chameleon, sort of adopting the musical personalities of who I was playing with.
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Think about it: Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam, North Korea, the former Soviet Union – they all start with the intention of leveling the playing field – or making things better for the little guy – and instead, they created misery, poverty, destruction and a permanent ruling class of bureaucrats.
586
We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.
587
Everybody who has ever played for Bayern knows how good this club is for its players. We are all grateful to be playing for Bayern.
588
Badminton is not only about winning. What is important to me is about playing hard, doing my best and putting up a good show for the spectators.
589
The Queen is frequently on her own, walking the dogs, riding her horses, playing patience, completing a jigsaw, sorting her photograph albums, watching television, phoning friends, doing the Telegraph crossword. Is she neglected? Is she suffering? Or does she simply understand her man?
590
There are hundreds of Beckhams playing football all over the world.
591
My major influences were primarily guitar players and bands; I started playing bass by accident.
592
If you’re the handsome white guy, you tend to get cast as guys who are meant to be convincing in their jobs. What I’ve been fortunate enough to do, whether it’s playing a certified idiot on ’30 Rock’ or a weirdo in ‘Bridesmaids,’ is play against that in a lot of ways.
593
I would have enjoyed playing some county cricket and learning my art that way, but I never had any ambitions at all to play for England, that’s for sure.
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I don’t get nervous in any situation. There’s no such thing as nerves when you’re playing games.
596
Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I’d be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that’s the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I’ve always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
597
I want to feel the team is playing like I want. If not, why am I here?
598
There’s something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.
599
I love playing music and I’m serious about It. But It’s not brain surgery.
600
You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That’s, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you’re chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night.
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One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain’s chair of the Enterprise.
603
I really love playing badminton and doing crosswords.
604
If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
607
If people hate Michael Langdon, that’s a good thing. I’m not going to debate that. I don’t worry about making him likeable… My real focus in playing Langdon is making his intentions clear and how he operates and what his mission is and how he shapes the perception of who he is around people.
608
If you are not playing for the Stanley Cup at the end of the year, what’s the point? If you don’t win, you may as well not make the playoffs, because you are loser just like everyone else.
609
I’m not playing a role. I’m being myself, whatever the hell that is.
610
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
611
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
612
Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is, ‘Oh, I’m on stage playing a song,’ because you’re daydreaming about something else, you’re on autopilot. You have to fight that.
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In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ I was just playing and having a good time.
615
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
616
It has endless possibilities, and but what we do with our arrangements, we move the borders of cello playing and discover new ways of new techniques of cello playing.
