Play Quotes
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Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.
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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
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It's a strange life... you really don't know how you will impact people or how things will play out.
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I'm not out trying to prove anything. I'm sort of finished with that, so I get to play in other sandboxes and try and figure out what I like and I'm interested in.
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There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.
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When I perform, it's definitely about duration. I don't play any kind of time signature known to man.
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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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It is only those who do not know how to work that do not love it. To those who do, it is better than play.
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I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.
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All I've ever tried to do is play real people.
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When something resonates with you, working for it seems more like play.
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There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are likethin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.
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A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
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When I walk into bat, I should know that 'Yes, I've prepared to the best of my ability. I couldn't have done anything better.' That is when I feel that I am ready to go out and play.
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Whether we play well or not, we have to win this game. We must call on all our fans to create the right atmosphere, as this is like a final. My players are not brimming with confidence but they understand that they have the responsibility of putting in a decent performance.
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I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.
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The play I did on Broadway a couple of seasons ago started out of town and it moved its way into New York because of the experience that we had out of town.
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When actresses play actresses, or actors play actors, they have to find another level.
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Why buy repeater carbines and nuclear armament - if this is kept at home a child can play with it.
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I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.
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When we get our minds to playing defense, we can turn any game around. I hope we get to a more consistent level of play.
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It just shows you have come prepared to play and ready to execute. It doesn't give you that much comfort when it's early and you still have another two and a half to three quarters to go. You better keep playing. But it is a positive, it gives you energy and it gives you a little boost like that.
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My real experience with video games was watching other people play. That's why a lot of my work isn't really about playing. It's about watching video games.
