Nat King Cole Quotes
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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I'm not coming back to play.
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I'm a huge gamer. I play a lot of games, and I play one game until I'm really, really good at it.
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Study first, play afterwards.
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In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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I never read about photography.
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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.
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama.
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I'm drawn to projects where I play these really complicated characters, but also where I can have some type of influence on affecting what we see as societal norms.
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.
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I had found the upper limit of my courage. Fortunately for me, there is no known lower limit to human stupidity.
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If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.
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I grew up a Michael Jordan fan; that was my first idol. But my true sports idol was Deion Sanders: he was the person I always wanted to be. I wanted to play two sports professionally, which would never happen, but to me, that was every kid's dream.
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If I could read it, I could play it.
