Doug Fieger (Douglas Lars Fieger) Quotes

We never paid to play, but we never got paid either, except for the very last set of gigs we did at The Starwood. We finally got paid. It was a Christmas weekend. We got paid fairly well I remember. The place was packed, but that was the only time we made a dime.

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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.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Good
  • Game
  • Play

• Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Father
  • Play
  • Right

• It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.

  

  Bam Margera
  • People
  • Play
  • Weird

• I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.

  

  LaToya London
  • Play
  • Picture
  • Motion

• When I'm not working... I'm an actor! I'm auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Drink

• 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.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Play
  • Quality
  • Pitching

• It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Play
  • Feel
  • Privilege

• 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.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.

  

  Basil Rathbone
  • Know
  • Play
  • Role

• I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Play
  • Because
  • Puzzle

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Movie
  • Play
  • Taken

• Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Children
  • Why
  • Play

• I love to play music.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Music
  • Love
  • Play

• I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Found
  • Earn

• I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Opportunity
  • Know
  • Play

• I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a sudden, the preparations made for the celebration put pressure on me. I said, 'Okay, I have to get there.' After 2,130, there was sort of a realization it was a foregone conclusion you're going to play tomorrow.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Play
  • Pressure
  • Tomorrow

• When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Want
  • Play
  • Limitations

• Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Alone
  • Play
  • Hands

• By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year.

  

  Mike McGavick
  • Quality
  • Race
  • Accounts

• I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.'

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Fantastic

• You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there's no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways. Living, loving, everything else is a matter of the same principles: you learn to work with what you have.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Work
  • Free

• We never paid to play, but we never got paid either, except for the very last set of gigs we did at The Starwood. We finally got paid. It was a Christmas weekend. We got paid fairly well I remember. The place was packed, but that was the only time we made a dime.

  

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