George Washington Quotes
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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Study first, play afterwards.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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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.'
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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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Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.
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I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
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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 I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.
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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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In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.
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For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.
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I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.
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I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well.
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I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.
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I feel that music is such an inspirational form of energy, as baseball is. And especially with Metallica, believe it or not, our shows are very physical. Sports is a very physical thing, too.
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In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.
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Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't.
