Playing Quotes
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I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski -
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
Igor Stravinsky
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
Jackson Browne -
I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
Harmon Killebrew -
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 -
I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.
Usain Bolt -
Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
Yannick Noah -
My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
Kate Winslet
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
Hakeem Olajuwon -
'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 -
When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.
Sachin Tendulkar -
I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.
Rachel Nichols
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We haven't even talked about Miami, so this has been about playing the other team.
Phil Jackson -
I love everything about playing for Newcastle, the club, the fans and the city.
Gary Speed -
You get steely nerves playing poker.
Nate Silver -
I have known people throughout my years of playing where maybe they had a gig, but then lost the gig because they didn't really move forward with them.
Tony Palermo Papa Roach -
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 -
I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
Larry Niven
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It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words.
Noel Gallagher Oasis -
I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters.
J. R. Bourne -
But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
Aaron Eckhart -
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