Earl Wilson Quotes

He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.

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• I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Play
  • Kid
  • Back

• I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Want
  • Play
  • Actor

• A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Man
  • Him

• The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Lead
  • Him

• Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Friend
  • Talk
  • Him

• You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Writing
  • Play
  • Thought

• I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Great
  • Loved
  • Him

• Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Parents
  • Kid
  • Him

• The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Way
  • Play
  • Best

• It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.

  

  Bam Margera
  • People
  • Play
  • Weird

• I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Like
  • Nothing
  • Him

• I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Up
  • Play
  • Old

• If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Play
  • Face
  • Characters

• I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Play
  • Player
  • Same

• Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Always
  • Him
  • Joker

• When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Trying
  • Thought
  • Trump

• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Country
  • Poet
  • Him

• The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules. You had Jeffrey Hinton playing every kind of music. It was like going back to when I used to deejay at Planet in '79, where you'd mix in nutty things like hip-hop or reggae or The Sound of Music 1965 or other film soundtracks - whatever.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Kind
  • Film
  • Dancing

• I was anxious before I decided to go back to acting about what I wanted to do with my life. Once I realized I was sort of interested in acting, I've been pretty lucky and had all these great parts. And I feel pretty much like, 'What will happen will happen.'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Life
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I train very hard, either rowing on the cross trainer or running. Not only do you feel tired afterwards but it relaxes you, it completely clears the head. But to sort things out I also like to walk.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Running
  • Tired
  • Walk

• Downsides, yeah, and when there are more downsides when churches first start - they go through stages of transforming to becoming multiracial. So in the beginning stages there's often a lot of pain, a lot of confusion, a lot of people leave.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Pain
  • Start
  • Confusion

• All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Well
  • All Right

• He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Play
  • Him
  • Phone