Alfie Kohn Quotes
Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.
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Study first, play afterwards.
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.
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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.
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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.
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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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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
I've always refused to play terrorists.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
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I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.
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I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.
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Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we used to have. I don't play cassettes much anymore, but I play records all the time.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
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For an actress who really hasn't gotten to act for two years, it was like letting a wild dog out of its cage.
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I do feel, like everyone, there's not enough female directors out there, there's not enough female producers, and would like to see more people get more opportunity, more opportunity for roles for women.
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Every time I come home, and every time before I leave, I invite all my friends and I get hummus from this little shack in Tel Aviv called Baadunas.
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The great thing about really heightened historical dramas is that they can convey much larger themes.
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Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.
