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“I was playing a lot of sports, and that actually changes dopamine signaling in the brain, which helps make life more enjoyable. And going to class not only altered the habit circuit in my brain, but it also meant that I had to spend some time out in the sun on my way to and from classes, which boosted my serotonin and regulated electrical activity in my brain during sleep.”

Sports Enjoy Sleep Brain Sun Dopamine Serotonin

Author:Alex Korb

Source: The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time

“I was playing a new part in a new play: the messed-up adult child coming home in a truly pitiful state in the back of her parents’ luxury sedan. It was a glorious suburban homecoming.”

Humor Affair Breakdown Suburbs Mother Daughter Relationship

Author:Inna Swinton

Source: The Many Loves of Mila

“I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner - and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.”

Real Guy Streets Corners Confused Heroin Dope Street Corners

Author:Al Pacino

“I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.”

Used House Party Sells Prohibition Whisky Birthday Party

Author:Thelonious Monk

“I was playing catch with the European audience.”

Audience European Countries

Author:Charles Olson

“I was playing cowboys and Indians in the trees, and then I started hitting the golf club with clubs father sawed off for me, and I began playing right here with my father.”

Father Tree Golf Clubs Hitting Cowboy Golf Clubs

Author:Arnold Palmer

“I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.”

Firsts Fields Track Coaches Cricket Track And Field Playing Cricket

Author:Usain Bolt

“I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers.”

Firsts Littles Two Three Bits Prayer Week Minutes Little Bit Garbage

Author:Jeremy Lin

“I was playing golf in Palm Springs and after a round I asked the waitress in a restaurant to bring me a glass of iced tea and lemonade. A lady sitting nearby heard me and asked the waitress to bring her a "Palmer," too. The name caught on and the beverage quickly spread around the country.”

Country Names Heard Spring Sitting Golf Rounds Glasses Caught Spread Tea Restaurants Palms Waitress Playing Golf Beverages Lemonade Palm Springs Iced Tea

Author:Arnold Palmer

“I was playing guitar before I heard The Beatles, but as I got older and listened to their tunes I realized they were amazing. They inspire me more now than they did when I was a kid and are still the greatest.”

Stills Kids Heard Inspire Guitar I Realized Tunes Playing Guitar

Author:Noel Gallagher

“I was playing heavy metal when I was 18. I had to evolve out of that into an alternative consciousness about what it meant to change the way I played guitar, and the kind of songs, and the subject matter, and singing about child abuse, and all this stuff. I had to come from somewhere, and I had to take chances to do that.”

Way Kind Children Matter Song Stuff Chance Consciousness Subjects Singing Abuse Guitar Heavy Alternatives Evolve Metals Child Abuse Take A Chance Subject Matter Heavy Metal

Author:Billy Corgan

“I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.”

Firsts School Band High School

Author:Dan Fogelberg

“I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.”

Long Lasts Rocks Band Rock Bands Casinos

Author:Ikue Mori

“I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changed”

Changed Mood

Author:Eminem

“I was playing in the juniors at Wimbledon I forgot to turn my mobile phone off. It was lying there in my bag and it rang in the middle of a match, and it was one of my friends from school saying, 'Murray, you're on the telly!' I learnt from that. I now put my phone on silent.”

School Lying Turns Middle My Friends Silent Phones Bags Mobile Juniors Mobile Phones Wimbledon

Author:Andy Murray

“I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.”

Years Periods Exciting Musical Opera Principal Orchestra Horns Great Music Metropolitan Year One

Author:Gunther Schuller

“I was playing like a rugby league player with 14 rugby players.”

Player League Rugby Rugby League

Author:Benji Marshall

“I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.”

Thinking Littles Winning Attention Gold Baseball Pay Attention League Little League Little League Baseball

Author:Dan O'Brien

“I was playing on the woodpile with Laura and Laura’s brother Johnnie and we were playing pirate ship and Laura was the captain and Johnnie was the first mate and I was the shrew—" “Crew.” “Shrew. And I was the shrew, and I said I was going to dive overboard looking for fish….”

Children Kids Pirates Playing Shrews

Author:Shirley Jackson

Source: Raising Demons

“I was playing once with the King of Samoa. I asked him what his handicap was. "Six wives," he said.”

Said Wife Kings Six Golf Handicaps Samoa

Author:Jack Redmond

“I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd grab a bottle and start swingin' out on 'Squeeze Me' or 'Royal Garden Blues'. The managers complained but, heck, they couldn't stop me!”

House Scene Garden Jazz Silent Screens Managers Bottles Organs Royal Harlem Silent Movies

Author:Fats Waller

“I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.”

People Men Artist Belief Stuff Boys Roles Overcoming Who I Am Badass Angelic Pretty Boy

Author:Charlie Hunnam

“I was playing Rasputin and what was motivating him was crumpet really, and I was extremely keen on crumpet so I was really rather good as Rasputin. And my next catastrophic failure was Macbeth, who I played in the style of a crumpet-lover, and then when Doctor Who came along, I embraced this lunacy, this cloud-cuckoo-land where people had to be convinced by absolute nonsense. I came from a very religious background, so it was easy for me to believe in something I knew nothing about.”

Religion Sex Acting Humour Doctor Who

Author:Tom Baker

“I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event which was planned in which races were run, and I simply just won these by a considerable margin”

Inspirational Children Running School Games Sports Race Events Athlete Margins Rugby Playing Rugby

Author:Roger Bannister

“I was playing sports all the time, growing up. And then, somewhere around 10th or 11th grade, I kind of lost interest in that and just started reading a lot. I didn't know what to read. I didn't have much direction outside of school.”

Knows Kind School Reading Lost Sports Interest Growing Up Growing Grades Playing Sports

Author:John Brandon

“I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.”

Thinking Years Running Three Careers Player Football Three Years Finishing Best Football

Author:Michel Patini

“I was playing the game where I was going to be a great TV or film writer some day and there was nothing else that I thought about, including other people.”

People Film Games Tvs Including Including Others

Author:Dan Harmon

“I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.”

Want Play Character Mets Glad Horrible Awful Racist

Author:Richard Widmark

“I was playing this sort of asshole actor [in The Jenny McCarthy Show]. And we shot the pilot, and it was a guaranteed go. It was going to be 24 [episodes] on the air. No questions from NBC. And we shot the pilot, and I was in Toronto doing a movie, and I got a call saying they cut the character, that I was off the show.”

Character Shows Actors Cutting Air Shots Pilots Episodes Toronto Nbc Jenny

Author:Eric McCormack

“I was playing video games LONG before I ever thought about playing football. If it wasn't for my parents making sure that I got outside every now and then as a child, I probably would've pursued some sort of tech path.”

Ifs Children Long Games Parent Path Football Video Now And Then Pursued Playing Football Playing Video Games

Author:Chris Kluwe

“I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.”

People Needs Years Long House Long Time Patient Violin

Author:Kevin Eubanks

“I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.”

Thinking World Play Serious Serious Things

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“I was playing with pencils while the other girls were playing with dolls.”

Girl Pencils Dolls Other Girl

Author:Sasha Pivovarova

“I was playing with sound like I would have played with pots and pans as a kid.”

Kids Sound Pot Pots And Pans

Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.”

Needed Picks Guitar Steel Amplification

Author:Brownie McGhee

“I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.”

Band Machines Suicide Quitting Detroit I Quit

Author:Travis Barker

“I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.”

Looks Country Eye Land Mountain Blue Expected Lovely Ruins Dull Disappointed Valleys Entering Sweetest Scenery Bohemia

Author:Bayard Taylor

Source: Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff

“I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score.”

Book Home Nice Team Advertising Hey Score Advertising Agencies Home Team

Author:Rocco DiSpirito

“I was pleased to see that Chief Justice [John] Roberts refused to prejudge issues or make promises in exchange for confirmation votes. We're all better off because of his principled stand.”

Justice Issues Promise Vote Chiefs Better Off Confirmation Principled Chief Justice

Author:Jon Kyl

“I was pleased to see that the Briton members of our forces were becoming accustomed to the discipline of the Kimbern and they were performing much better than both my brother and I expected.”

Leadership Discipline Allies Militaryhistory Earlymedieval Culturalexchange

Author:Michael G. Kramer

Source: Full Story of the Anglo-Saxon Invasion

“I was pleased with both games. Our sportsmanship was outstanding.”

Games Outstanding Sportsmanship

Author:Wade Clark Mackey

“I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.”

Way Hard Father Social Known Sacrifice Hard Work Justified Debutantes

Author:Gene Tierney

Source: Self-portrait

“I was pointing out the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia and the fact that Australia has been there for Indonesia when Indonesia has been in difficulty.”

Has Beens Facts Friendship Difficulty Depth Australia Pointing Indonesia

Author:Tony Abbott

“I was poisoned by love, that in the call of Suzanne I was awakened to love, and to the nightmare of want.”

Love Despair Anne Rice The Witching Hour

Author:Anne Rice

Source: The Witching Hour

“I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things, and that's ridiculous. It's one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you're doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you'll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain.”

Feels Trying Looks Eye Pain Can Do Drug Alcohol Ridiculous Inevitable Someday Numb Poisoning Postponing

Author:Johnny Depp

“I was poking fun at myself most of all.”

Artist Fun Poking Fun

Author:Marcel Duchamp

“I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. And I had no other ambition than to discover with the help of new means those deep inner ties that linked me to the very soil.”

Mean Helping Beautiful Life Is Poor Ambition Ties Soil Linked Life Is Beautiful

Author:Maurice de Vlaminck

“I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again.”

Want Poor

Author:Jim Rogers

“I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.”

White Poor Ashamed Trash Glamour Glitter White Trash

Author:Eminem

“I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.”

People Thinking Hands Artist Poor Rich Very Good

Author:Imogen Cunningham

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