Robbie Merrill Quotes
I started at 14, and only played bass. I traded in my train set for a bass, and used my dad's amp.
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I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.
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I would love to have played Gollum.
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I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.
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I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
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I pitched and I played the outfield.
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I've played soccer since I was five.
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Boy you got my heartbeat runnin away Beatin like a drum & it's comin your way Cant you hear that Boom badoom boom boom badoom boom bass He got that super bass Boom badoom boom boom badoom boom bass Yeah that's that super bass
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I just wasn't picked. I'm not bitter. I'm not mad. It just means I'll get to spend more time with my wife and kids over the next three summers. I still hope they bring back the gold. I'm just honored to have played before.
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He played with the energy and the enthusiasm and threw his body around out there, things that we want to see players do. That helped us. I thought he ran out of gas at one point in that fourth quarter. Otherwise, I probably would have had him stay on the floor.
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If I could just have my music be played for many people no matter what method or way is used, I would reply that that is not the case.
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We played well and actually did a lot of things right.
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I've played with Mardy Fish a lot. Played with him, I think, two years ago in one of the weekend rounds.
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Nobody we've played this season, ... has come with this much size, this much talent and this much experience. North Carolina and Georgia Tech probably have the most overall talent. Now that they're healthy, they're probably believing they can do it.
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If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.
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After the first quarter we played right with them.
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This might have been one of the best games he's played for us.
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I think once you start as an announcer, you have to decide what kind of approach you're going to have. I decided very early that I was going to be a reporter, that I would not cheer for the team. I don't denigrate people who do it. It's fine. I think you just have to fit whatever kind of personality you have, and I think my nature was to be more down the middle and that's the way I conducted the broadcasts.
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For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
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We didn't play soft. There were a lot of fouls called. Some that we weren't used to and some that I haven't seen in my whole life.
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I never once had a regular paycheck. Not for more than six weeks in a row and for the most part not even that. I still haven't. The notion of some whistling kid with a mail cart coming down the hall and handing me my weekly paycheck is something I've only seen in Matthew Broderick movies.
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I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.
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I started at 14, and only played bass. I traded in my train set for a bass, and used my dad's amp.
