Playing Quotes
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Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?
Eugene Ormandy
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Brian Hyland just happened to be playing in our town and that song [ "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini"] was really big. And I got to go back by the stage door, and he autographed a piece of paper for me and I just, I went crazy.
Cassandra Peterson
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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.
Sanaa Lathan
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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.
Erik Erikson
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I believe that the artist's feelings are in some way generative. And I suspect that much of the artist's most productive emotion - not all of it but much of it - is felt in the course of playing around with form.
Carter Ratcliff
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Everyone is expecting something in each game I'm playing. I don't have to score in every game, but I want to do my best. I want to give everything for the club, for my teammates, and myself also.
Mohamed Salah
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You have a choice to make when you're not playing. Either you're invested and a great teammate, or your not...
Brad Stevens
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When I die, just keep playing the records.
Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.
Ray Lewis
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It’s really interesting, I tailor the set to the place we’re playing and to the audience we’re playing to. There’s a certain formula of songs that have to be included that are expected, but I don’t go changing it up, I think if you give the audience the songs that they want and then give them something unexpected, it’s a great situation for the audience, but also a great situation for the band.
Frankie Banali
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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.
Robert Wilson
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You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.
Joshua Sasse
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I think how I'm playing, not who I'm playing.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
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I’ve always appreciated working. And more importantly, playing drums. I always appreciated it.
Chris Slade
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It's going to you know, I can't go out there and shoot par and win. Everybody is playing well, and I think you'll have to go out tomorrow and have 4, 5, 6 under par probably.
Raymond Floyd
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You know that you have to keep winning to keep playing.
Hugo Lloris
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I was playing in bands and doing gigs from the age of 14 on. I stopped at the age of 28. Technology replaced me. As soon as I saw what computers can do, I didn't think there would be a point for a live drummer.
Mitchell Joachim
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My job - and it's really true - is that it's constantly evolving and changing. When I was doing the Chet Baker movie I was obsessed with playing the trumpet, and to my absolute shock I haven't picked the trumpet up since we wrapped. It was so much work. I thought I was going to keep playing the rest of my life, 'cause it was fun, it's just a lot of work. And it's a really unique job that exposes you to a lot.
Ethan Hawke
