Play Quotes
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Play is not only our creative drive; it's a fundamental mode of learning.
David Elkind
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One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you say, Well, I'm going to write this because I think that you're going to like this and therefore you'll buy a ticket for this.
Wendy Wasserstein
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When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'
Robby Krieger The Doors
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Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them.
Dacia Maraini
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All of it is bad. We just struggled so badly offensively. We just couldn't put the ball in the basket. They did a great job with Tracy (McGrady) struggling. Sloppy, we just didn't play well, just didn't take care of the ball.
Allen Iverson
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I'd like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I'd say you're not going to do that are you? Make your kids go out and play.
C. Everett Koop
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What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.
William Devane
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Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.
Aaron Belz
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One of the things I advised Donald Trump to do was to make sure that, before he commits to certain courses of action, he has really dug in and thought through how various issues play themselves out.
Barack Obama
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Always Great to play with Larry Campbell and Ge smith !! Lots of Twang!! Old Tele’s and Old fender amps!
Jim Weider The Band
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I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music--notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.
Jennifer Donnelly
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We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that is the real theater-totranscend them in the manner of play, bymeans of games and irony; it is good to be dirty and bearded, to have long hair,to look like a girl when one is a boy (and vice versa); one must put "inplay," show up, transform and reversethe systems which quietly order us about.
Michel Foucault
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Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.
Franz Kafka
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I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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I have no clue. I just know I would want to play the least amount of shows that the most people would be able to come to.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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I think I can play in the big leagues 10 or 15 years. But more important to me is winning-win, make the playoffs.
Carlos Beltran
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When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.
Chadwick Boseman
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Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.
Willie Mays
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They're tournament-tested and play at the highest level. They're ready.
C. Vivian Stringer
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I just continue to play the way that made me successful in this league. Once I stop being aggressive on the basketball court, I'll be hurting my team more than helping them.
Allen Iverson
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What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.
John Stuart Mill
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Oh, God, I would love to go and do a play someplace.
Erika Slezak
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When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down.
Ruggiero Ricci
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I thought I was terrible [to play a cameo] and decided never to act again.
Paul Auster