Playing Quotes
  
  
  
	
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		Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Josh Billings
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Well, you put a little piece of yourself into every character that you do. Even if you're playing some psychotic person, which of course I'm not, some part of you is in that character and it's hopefully believable. I always come back to the fact that my own instinct is better than something I build in my mind.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Scarlett Johansson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they're alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nick Cave
			
			
				The Birthday Party
			
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You ain't average! But you know what? You're playing small because it's easier to be average.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eric Thomas
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Absolutely, I'm living my dream. Yeah. My wife always jokes, says I'm a big kid, you know, playing in the studio and coming up with melodies and sounds. And, you know, I wouldn't know any other way because I just have music in my head all the time, and I just love it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ramin Djawadi
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gwen Stefani
			
			
				No Doubt
			
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Most nervous I've ever been is probably the 2007 Walker Cup. I was a little boy playing with these 8 or 9 other guys that were the best amateurs in the country.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rickie Fowler
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm going to use this disappointment as motivation for getting better, ... It was a hard year, the whole year, I'm not going to lie. I don't feel that I have played like I'm capable of playing.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alana Beard
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I think that I've mastered the game, it appears that every time I discover that I was playing blindly on some larger board.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Conn Iggulden
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In the phusical sense, 'playing a fret less instrument in tune' is an impossibility. Hence what we call 'playing in tune' is no more than an extremely rapid skilfully carried out improvement of the originally inexactly located pitch.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Carl Flesch
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Phil Collins
			
			
				Genesis
			
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When we first started touring, we were going to these towns we'd never otherwise go to, never otherwise see, and that's sort of why we like being in a band. But we started playing these bigger rooms and not even seeing the towns.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Winston Marshall
			
			
				Mumford & Sons