Play Quotes
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Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go.
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I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.
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I always try to get as personal as I can with the characters that I play, which is a reason why I don't play a lot of characters.
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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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What beat me was not having brains enough to stick to my own game—that is, to play the market only when I was satisfied that precedents favored my play.
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It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.
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A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.
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When you see what you're here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It's almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you.
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When a theater goes dark for the night, a stagehand leaves a lighted lamp on stage. No one knows why any more, but some old timers say it is to keep the ghosts away. Others say it lights the stage for the ghosts to play. Whichever theory one adheres to, most people agree: a great theater is haunted.
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I don't know if we have to win the Big Ten tournament, but that probably depends on who we play and how far we go. We have to worry about Saturday first.
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Twenty-nine turnovers didn't help us at all. Shooting 1-for-9 in 3-pointers in the first half didn't help us. But, man, they're a scrappy basketball team. They play in those spurts and that's what makes them good. They can afford not to play well in 2- or 3-minute spans. We can't. We're not good enough of a basketball team to do that.
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Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself.
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You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.
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It's a lot of years. Not many guys get the opportunity to play their whole career with one organization, and I'm very happy.
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You can only play one hole at a time.
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Our target is to get into the play-offs. If not, we want automatic promotion.
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Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director was someone who liked my play. I was rudely awakened from that fantasy when he directed it as if he loathed it. . . . Work with good actors. A good actor hears the way you (and no one else) write. A good actor makes rewrites easy. A good actor tells you things about your play you didn't know.
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It was another day to go to work, and try to play and play well.
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Childhood’s work is learning, and it is in his play...that the child works at his job.
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All I can do is try to show people that I can play well and try to change their opinion.
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If I ever get bored with golf, I'm going to start over and play lefthanded.
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Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.
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It's not easy to play your best for 40 weeks. It happens every year, I don't play well in Rome or Hamburg -- I don't know why -- but then I play well after that.
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I know guys that are going to struggle. I know guys that don't play and 'bean' up. To me, that's becoming pretty reliant on something. It's going to have an effect. I don't think there's any doubt.
