J Mascis Quotes
When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.
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I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.
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There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.
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The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?
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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
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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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Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
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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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There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.
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I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.
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I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.
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I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.
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I want to write music that will outlive me.
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Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
