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“When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!”

Thinking Play My Own Stress Intensity New Music

Author:Bela Fleck

“When I play myself, I want to be a slightly better person. It just agrees. Everything I play about myself is kind of true, but it's amplified. We all edit, don't we? If you're self-aware, you stop yourself - you know how to behave properly.”

Ifs Knows Want Kind Persons Self Play Know How Agree Behave Better Person Edits

Author:Steve Coogan

“When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.”

Play Sea Dance Folks Wave Fiddle

Author:William Butler Yeats

Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

“When I play out the scenario in fast-forward, I can barely stand to watch it. He'll say something wonderful at some point, and I'll start to believe he means it, despite all evidence to the contrary. And then I'll start to like him or love him or feel something that I swear I've never felt before. And then one day, when I'm in too deep, he'll stop liking me or loving me, for one reason or another. And I'll be left with a hole in my heart.”

Romance Sad Heartbreak

Author:Taylor Jenkins Reid

Source: Carrie Soto Is Back

“When I play sports, when I dance, when I teach mysticism, I cannot explain, even to myself, how I do what I do.”

Play Sports Teach Mysticism Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When I play stuff for my wife she'll be like, "No, not that song. No way."”

Way Play Song Stuff Wife My Wife

Author:Walter Martin

“When I play supernatural characters in 'Ghost Rider' or 'City Of Angels,' the possibilities are limitless. The possibilities are endless, you can do so much with that.”

Play Character Can Do Cities Possibility Angel Endless Ghost Limitless Riders City Of Angels Ghost Rider

Author:Nicolas Cage

“When I play that music live nowadays, there's a lot of things I feel I'd like to do - even things I don't think the audience is aware of, like layering subs underneath the kicks, and layering crisp hats underneath the muddy, trashy hats of the '90s. If I tried to play the music as it was next to my contemporary music, it just sounds like you're closing up half of the sonic spectrum.”

Thinking Audience Like You

Author:DJ Shadow

“When I play too many video games I begin to feel chubby-minded, caffeinated, bad.”

Feels Play Games Video

Author:Tom Bissell

“When I play videogames I'm trying to go deep every pitch. I'm definitely not going to try to do that in real life. In the (video)game I'm trying to leave the yard.”

Trying Real Play Games Real Life Video Yards Videogame

Author:Dustin Pedroia

“When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?”

Ifs Knows Play Sports Cat Pastime

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.”

Knows Play Humor Funny Animal Cat Pet Amusement Amusing Pet Animals Pet Dog Pets Cats

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“When I play with people, one of the first rules is to listen. Just by the near fact that you listen and you're open to listening, or you're listening and you're open to what this other person is doing. Also you going to be open to what you're doing and you're not going to have it like 'planned out'.”

People Firsts Persons Play Facts Listening

Author:Hamid Drake

“When I play with the full band, you get to be larger than life, you feel larger than life, and that particular moment in the song where there's passion, you've got nine guys behind you, all driving that sound and that feeling with you. That's like surfing a huge wave, because once you start you really can't stop it, you got it going down a huge mountain.”

Feels Play Moments Feelings Guy Song Passion Sound Behinds Particular Huge Band Mountain Wave Driving Nine Surfing Behind You Larger Than Life

Author:Jason Mraz

“When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis player?”

Feels Should Looks Play Player Ugly Theatre Tennis Should I Tennis Player

Author:Anna Kournikova

“When I play, I make love – it is the same thing.”

Play Making Love

Author:Arthur Rubinstein

“When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great!”

Play Healing Performances Heat

Author:Matt Nathanson

“When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great! It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage. It takes on this incredible feeling of levitating and the molecules spin differently in the moment.”

Play Moments Feelings Spiritual Healing Player Stage Becoming Performances Instruments Incredibles Heat Molecules Elevation Becoming One

Author:Matt Nathanson

“When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.”

Play Light Emotion Drawing Trance Hypnotic

Author:John Fahey

“When I play, I'm boiling inside. I just try not to show it because it's a lack of composure, and if you give in to your emotions after one loss, you're liable to have three or four in a row.”

Ifs Giving Trying Play Shows Three Loss Emotion Four Liable Boiling Composure

Author:Chris Evert

“When I play, what I see are people who mean something to me, both positively and negatively. It's my private life, in a way, what I see, and this is what I share.”

People Way Mean Play Share Positively Private Life

Author:Igor Levit

“When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.”

Play Fun Baseball Balls Inspirational Baseball Playing Baseball Motivational Baseball

Author:Ty Cobb

Source: My life in baseball: the true record

“When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.”

Play Fun Struggle Survival Baseball Balls Tea Contests Supremacy Survival Of The Fittest Inspirational Baseball Playing Baseball Motivational Baseball

Author:Ty Cobb

Source: My life in baseball: the true record

“When I played baseball I got death threats all the time--from my mother.”

Mother Baseball Threat

Author:Bob Uecker

“When I played basketball, I spent hours On the court practicing. When i became a body-builder, I was in the gym all the time. Like most beginners, I didn't really know what I was doing, but the more I did it, the more I loved it. I guess you could say I was a gym rat. Seeing my body change made me come back for more.”

Knows Made Body Hours Seeing Basketball Court Gym Rats Bodybuilding Builder Beginners Body Change Body Builder Gym Rats

Author:Phil Heath

“When I played doctor I played to win.”

Winning Doctors

Author:Joey Comeau

“When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.”

Knows Play Humor Funny Know How Drink Humorous Wine Drinking Alcohol Drunk Sober Liquor Drinking Alcohol

Author:Richard Burton

“When I played football was somewhat taboo for a girl. Today it's not as much of a problem. Not all girls want to play football but it's not a case of 'Oh my god she plays football, that's a bit odd.' It's a lot more accepted now.”

Want Play Problem Today Girl Bits Cases Football Accepted Odd Taboo

Author:Hope Powell

“When I played football, basketball and baseball, I was always a starter. I played baseball as the number three or number four hitter. Playing baseball, I was the third baseman or pitcher. Football, I was the quarterback. I was always versatile. It came to me naturally. It was always easy.”

Three Easy Numbers Four Football Basketball Baseball Thirds Pitcher Quarterback Starters Versatile Playing Baseball Number Three

Author:Future

“When I played football, I liked being a goalkeeper or a midfielder. I was probably better at cricket. I would be a very good cricketer if I was a professional now. I think I would probably have been the best, in fact.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Facts Would Be Football Very Good Cricket Cricketers Goalkeepers Midfielders

Author:Usain Bolt

“When I played for the Steelers and I got my bell rung, I'd take smelling salts and go right back out there.”

Bells Salt Steelers

Author:Terry Bradshaw

“When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.”

Ifs Trying Together Wonder Goes On Queens Bless God Bless Get It Together

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.”

Ifs Knows Certain Sides Lord Mountain Shots Rings Occasions Streams Climbing Swimming Captured Did You Know Climbing Up

Author:Andy Serkis

“When I played in a 21-team league, there were six or seven goalies who were just average, and the equipment and pads were smaller. I came in the right era. I played for the right team. It was all speed, and creativity and imagination.”

Imagination Creativity Team Six Seven Average Speed Eras League Equipment Pads Imagination And Creativity Goalies

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“When I played in Holland, I always tried to lob the goalkeeper. People used to say, 'Oh, you're always only trying to make a nice goal'. But I said, 'Listen, if the goalie is a little bit off his line, how much space do you have on his left or right?' It's not a lot. 'And how much space do you have above him?”

People Ifs Trying Littles Said Used Left Bits Goal Lines Space Nice Little Bit Holland Goalkeepers Goalies

Author:Dennis Bergkamp

“When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.”

Humor Funny Cat Covering Sandbox

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing-in tune!-and the audience loved it.”

Funny Audience Dog Singing Training Jokes Tunes Dog Training

Author:Eartha Kitt

“When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.”

Looks Said Eye Mother Son Balls Noses They Said Leonardo Mother And Son

Author:Ellen Barkin

“When I played my own songs, I had to do everything myself to get it the right way, but now I think it's interesting to see how it becomes music.”

Thinking Way Song My Own Interesting Right Way

Author:Gustav Ejstes

“When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured em of all their daydreams and delusions.”

Ems Delusion Gambling Pool Psychiatrist Daydreaming

Author:Rudolf Wanderone

“When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.”

“When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.”

Thinking Should Actors Roles Bother Hood Robins Robin Hood Supporting Actors

Author:Kevin Costner

“When I played the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve, I got to bring Wiley, my 85-pound black lab. He's responsible for my favorite New Year's memory of all: At the end of the show, he ran onstage and then out across all the tables in the showroom, sending champagne glasses and gamblers flying.”

Years Ends Shows Black Memories Responsible Tables My Favorite Glasses Flying Ran Hotel Pounds New Year Vegas Las Vegas Champagne Labs New Years Eve Sahara Showroom

Author:Elayne Boosler

“When I played the Shins, I changed someone's life. When I play Belle and Sebastian in a pivotal scene in my next movie...well, let's just say I made sure I that I can't be held legally responsible for all the deaths people will suffer out of shock upon hearing them. They're a terrific band.”

People Wells Made I Can Play Suffering Next Changed Scene Band Responsible Hearing Shock Terrific Belle Pivotal

Author:Zach Braff

“When I played with Michael Jordan on the Olympic team, there was a huge gap between his ability and the ability of the other great players on that team. But what impressed me was that he was always the first one on the floor and the last one to leave.”

Firsts Lasts Ability Player Team Huge Perseverance Gaps Wrestling Impressed Jordan

Author:Steve Alford

“When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I still had to call out plays, notice schemes, know the systems, do everything they had to do.”

Knows Stills Important Play Smart Schemes Knicks

Author:Patrick Ewing

“When I played, a pitcher could throw at you any time he wanted to. In fact, he could tell you he was going to throw at you, and there was nothing said. You had to take it. If he hit ya, he hit ya.”

Ifs Said Facts Wanted Pitcher

Author:Lloyd Waner

“When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.”

Running Wanted Sports Natural Ability Bigger Natural Ability

Author:Brady Anderson

“When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.”

Want Play Wanted Player Needed Baseball Teammate Opposing Spotlight

Author:Bruce Sutter

“When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.”

Black Player Authority Abuse Just One

Author:Ruud Gullit

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