John Sykes Quotes
Phil left such an incredible legacy of music, there's hours of great stuff. We're gonna play all the hits and some classic album tracks. We got together to play, and it didn't sound too bad. In fact it sounded great and it was a lot of fun.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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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'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
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I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.
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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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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
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Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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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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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
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You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.
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I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
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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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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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I thought that (Newman) worked hard (on Thursday night) and that is the way that she needs to work and the way the teams needs to work on a day to day basis. What we've got going with (Vincent) is that if you are going to key on her we will burn you inside and you have to play her straight up.
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That was a heads-up play. I was behind him (backing up), and he saw the throw didn't have enough to get the runner. So he ran up where he could get the ball cleanly and make the throw. That made it two outs and no on, instead of (the potential for) an add-on run. The damage was over.
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The world belongs to the discontented.
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Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts, New York City, Long Island, the California coast and a few big cities on the Great Lakes - in other words, every Democratic enclave will be wiped out leaving only the solid Republican heartland. Politically speaking, for conservatives there's no downside to global warming.
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Phil left such an incredible legacy of music, there's hours of great stuff. We're gonna play all the hits and some classic album tracks. We got together to play, and it didn't sound too bad. In fact it sounded great and it was a lot of fun.
