Playing Quotes
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I experienced the heat when I was playing for Madrid. If we went to places like Sevilla early on in the season it was unbearable. Usually you can feel it on pre-season tours in places like Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta. The humidity levels are unreal, but this is different, the first game of the World Cup.
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I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that is not always level!
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I was playing like a rugby league player with 14 rugby players.
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Normally the police like to turn up nice and early, preferably around 6 a.m., because not only are people liable to be actually at home but that early in the morning they’re rarely playing with a full deck. Today we were going in Sunday lunchtime because we weren’t looking for shock and awe but aiming for sinister and creepy instead.
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When I was playing, there were only eight teams in each league, and you didn't have any playoffs.
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When I die, just keep playing the records.
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It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You.'
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Contours on the second half of a long putt have more impact on how the ball rolls because it's going slower. Adjust your speed if that last part is playing uphill or downhill. Don't get fooled by an early slope or break.
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We're playing with passion. These guys never quit. We're seeing within our dressing room guys committed, playing sick, and hurt.
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You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play.
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I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.
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When I'm naked, I really like to do push-ups. No. I think I really tackle it like everything else. If you're going to commit yourself to playing something, you have to be able to understand it. If you can understand it, then you can do it and go balls out with it. But, I've never been in a position where I've been like, "This doesn't feel right." I wouldn't do it, if it was that. I like the shock value of it. I think that, if you use it correctly, it's pretty effective, as long as I'm lit really, really, really well.
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When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.
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I'm going to tell Anthony he's playing Davis every night. He played very well.
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I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on.
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I get to do a lot of things I don't usually get to do with the boys. I love playing guitar and rocking out on stage, so I do a ton of that with my solo project. [Backstreet Boys] all give each other the freedom to do our own thing, which just makes the bond the five of us have stronger
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Playing in front of millions of people erases everything I hate about myself. Nothing can hurt me.
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If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.
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We want our main guys to start playing now. You'll see some different looks.
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Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had...
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Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real life. Not in any kind of creepy, Method actor-y kind of way - it's just an innate kind of merging.
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Nobody really knows anything. Right now, we're just all praying for him and hoping everything turns out for the best.
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Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.
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We just wanted to be successful enough to have another record. We went from playing bars in front of three people to selling out Madison Square Garden, all on our first record. We were surprised at how successful it was, and we still are.
