W Quotes
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“When you're playing cards you can't constantly think about what the money costs you in the real world. You can't be constantly concerned about that if you want to be successful.”
“When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth.”
“When you're playing festivals, you only get a half-hour. It's like a meat market. You don't get to be artistic. You don't get to play music. It's called a showcase for a reason.”
“When you're playing for 30 people and you're jumping around stage, screaming, getting in peoples faces and acting cocky you're kind of poking fun at yourself.”
“When you're playing it as a business... your livelihood depends on winning and losing and so some- times sportsmanship is lost, as in the process of billion dollar companies.”
“When you're playing live, those people who you're trying to please and reach, they're right there giving you feedback. And you don't get that feedback in the studio.”
“When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's”
“When you're playing poorly, you start thinking too much. That's when you confuse yourself.”
“When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what acting is. It expands your imagination and expands your size of thinking.”
“When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it feels really good to do that.”
“When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves.”
“When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate.”
“When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.”
“When you're playing something, hopefully, if you're doing your best, you're advocating for your character and you're not trying to think too much.”
“When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.”
“When you're playing supernatural characters, there's an infinite number of possibilities with a character. And I also think they're wonderful and entertaining for the whole family. You don't have a high body count.”
“When you're playing the devil, you're playing the ultimate evil. There are no boundaries. In doing a film in the horror genre or a psychological thriller, you're really pushed as an actress, you're pushed way outside of your comfort zone. Emotionally, mentally, and physically. That's when things really get fun.”
“When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.”
“When you're playing the same dirty dozen night after night, the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone.”
“When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life.”
“When you're playing to an audience that isn't your own, it's quite scary.”
“When you're playing with only 13 guys, and is on the power play 12 times, that'll wear you down.”
“When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.”
“When you're poor, you have nothing to lose and be afraid of. Holding onto the dream and having nothing to lose is what helped me succeed.”
“When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.”
“When you're pregnant you just want to be comfortable - but I wear more or less the same as I do when I'm not pregnant: pregnancy denim with normal tops and flat shoes. But when the belly starts to really stick out, I'll want the floaty dresses!”
“When you're pregnant, people feel like they can come up and give you unsolicited advice. When I was nine months pregnant, this one woman came up and she said, I have one word for you: epidural. And I was like, Oh my God, thanks. But we already picked a name.”
“When you're pregnant, things-at least for me-get very sincere and very wholesome, and it's about family, and singing becomes about warmth.”
“When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep her close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: Until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes
“When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable.”
“When you're president, the Democrats got to feel good when they walk in the door if you're a Republican; if you're a Democrat, the Republican has to feel like you're listening. And you should be listening.”
“When you're president, you can't vote present. You have to make a decision. Sometimes it's a split second decision. You don't have time to think about it. You've got to actually decide.”
“When you're president, you have more power to help more people, but you also are the prisoner of circumstances as well, and countervailing political forces more.”
“When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.”
“When you're pro-life, you need to be pro-life for the whole life.”
“When you're providing a service to somebody, you're the guy they always call when something's wrong.”
“When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.”
“When you're pushed killing is as easy as breathing.”
“When you're put in a position where you're having to decide, Is this a good decision? Is this the right decision for everybody involved? - it makes me feel a little unsteady, unsure.”
“When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.”
“When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.”
Source: The Mary Russell Series 9-Book Bundle: O Jerusalem, Justice Hall, The Game, Locked Rooms, The Language of Bees, The God of the Hive, Pirate King, Garment of Shadows, Dreaming Spies
“When you're quite young, your imagination's quite free.”
“When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.”
“When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.”
“When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall.”
Source: L.A. Story: And, Roxanne : Two Screenplays
“When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there's pressure to keep the momentum up.”
“When you're reading a newspaper and you're seeing ads on the page, it's not kind of invasive. Like, it's on the page next to the article. You can look at it or not. You can turn the page when you're ready. On the internet, the ads - many of the ads - just are so controlling. They insist that you see them.”
“When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How do winners become winners?”
“When you're reading Chekov, you're in this world that he's created. I never would have created that world. I don't know anything about that time period or that setting or those groups of people or what those experiences were, but oh my gosh, it's amazing to daydream on it and put yourself there.”
“When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent.”