Play Quotes
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Obviously the way that I talk and the way that I dress all has to do with the way that I was raised. As far as the drive, when I was 18 or 21 years old, everything I did was because I wanted to go play music simply because that's what I wanted to do.
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The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.
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I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
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I don't really compare any of the characters I play; I try to go into them being very open to what the characters can offer and what I can bring to them and then bring a being to life.
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It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously. I take it no less seriously than the band I was in for 15 years; it's just a new place that I'm in. I'm in the Gutter Twins right now and that's what I am. But if I'm a Twilight Singer next year, it will be with no less passion.
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Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.
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Music definitely is part of my rhythm, you know I play with a rhythm so I have to listen to music.
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We'll play jacks and Uno cards I'll be your best friend And you'll be mine
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Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace, And copies Ovid's filth without his grace. In his rough brain a genius might have grown, Had he not sought to play the brute alone; But void of shame, he let his wit run wild, And liv'd and wrote as Adam's bestial child.
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A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament.
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As a kid, I can't remember having anything to play with except a loose tooth. And that wasn't mine. It was my brother's.
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People who no longer play, gradually lose the value of all things.
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They want to take the most cautious route possible. There is still a lot of football to be played. As a competitor, I feel I can go now, but it's not up to me. It's up to the healing. Once the possibility of something happening diminishes, that's when they'll let me play.
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That's what I'd rather be doing more than anything. I love to play and perform and write, record, do whatever - just stay in music.
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I've had really a great choice of roles that have been very different from one another. And I think I kind of set out to do that when I began my career - to aim to never play the same thing twice.
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You just have to play the character.
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When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.
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The quarterback, you can play with a lot of big injuries. You get a little injury like an index finger or a thumb that most people can play with, sometimes you can't. I've stayed away from some of those.
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I've played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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Beautiful music plays, but not everyone with ears can hear it.
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When I was 13 my dream was to play the U.S. Open. Now it's to win it.
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The quality of your play never counts as much as the quality of your effort.
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If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's the case then there really isn't any reason to want to do it.
