Nigel Kennedy Quotes
If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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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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I just love playing in major championships.
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
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My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.
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When you're in the head of the character, you feel less self-conscious. If I was just being me, I would feel so exposed and be like, 'Why is there a huge camera in my face?' But, when you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.
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I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.
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I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.
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I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters.
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Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?
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I think he looks comfortable playing. That's the one thing I felt last year - that he didn't look comfortable playing.
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It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words.
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This was a team that we were playing that has really improved as the season has gone on. They return a number of guys. They're going to be a force to be reckoned with in the very near future.
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The course is playing the players instead of the players playing the course.
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I was used to carrying a mass sound by myself," "not to mention composing everything myself, so it was great and really helpful to get reacquainted with playing in a band again.
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Playing with Ozzy was a dream come true.
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I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh. The bat split right in half. Afterward, reporters asked me if it was the first time I'd ever broken a bat over my thigh. "I broke an aluminum bat over my knee in college," I said. (I was just kidding).
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Taking sartorial risks and not following other people is what makes you stand out.
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And love was like forgiveness – deep and patient. It would be waiting for her on the other side.
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The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.
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If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.
