Playing Quotes
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
Galveston Giant
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That's absolutely one of my most favorite movies, for so many reasons. I fought for that part; I wanted it badly. I took a lower salary, I did everything. Grace Kelly said, 'I'll never forgive you for playing that part. It was written for me. She Kelly got the prince Rainier, I got the part.'
Lauren Bacall
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
Maceo Parker
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I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.
Usain Bolt
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
Eddie Marsan
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
Igor Stravinsky
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
Larry Niven
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Playing safe is very risky.
Seth Godin
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
Jackson Browne
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I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
Nate Silver
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
Gary Carr
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This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.
Gavin MacLeod
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Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.
Sachin Tendulkar
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
Malik Jackson
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You’re dealing with it all the time. Even if it goes up to a high level, you’re still playing out this role of ‘It’s fine.
Aluna Francis
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
Yannick Noah
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
Harmon Killebrew
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There is something to the fact that when you're on stage or when you're playing someone else, you're able to transmute all the things inside you that maybe get a bit blocked by the wall of shyness, or the wall of anxiety, or [by] overthinking. They sort of fall away in that moment and channeled into something else.
Emma Stone
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'Oh, son, I wish you hadn’t become a scenario writer!' she sniffled.'Aw, now, Moms,' I comforted her, 'it’s no worse than playing the piano in a call house.'
S. J. Perelman
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I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.
Talulah Riley
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
Warren Moon
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There's no way to explain it. We just got beat up. We're not stop-ping nobody, man. ... And if we can't stop nobody on the defensive end then it's hard to get into any type of running game, easy baskets. Every time they're scoring on us, and we're coming down and playing against a half-court set.
Allen Iverson