“There are a lot of dream roles that I couldn't do, like James Bond and Indiana Jones; I'd never get a look in there, but actually, Doctor Who is probably the only one that I could because he's quite quirky, and the fact that he regenerates he can actually be anyone. So one day, who knows, I might have a chance. I'd love to play that part.” KnowsLooksPlayFactsDreamMightChanceRolesOne DayDoctorsDoctor WhoQuirkyIndiana Author:Thomas Howes
“There are two sides to being pigeonholed. There's, 'Oh, no, I'm going to be Chandler for the rest of my life,' but there's also the fact that getting to play Chandler opened up doors to me. It's now my job to find things that shake it up a little bit.” LittlesTwoPlayFactsJobsBitsSidesDoorsLittle BitShakesTwo SidesShake It Up Author:Matthew Perry
“In my view the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays.” PeopleWritingPlayFactsFilmResultsViewsWatchesNovelCreativeDirectCreative WorkArtificiality Author:Will Self
“It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.” PeopleIfsThinkingPlayFactsKidsWatchesTvsCowboyBack WhenCowboy Movie Author:Magnus
“What I'd like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact.” TryingPlayFactsStarsRealizingWho You AreBeing YourselfBe ConfidentBe Who You AreTry Your Best Author:Jerome Richardson
“As far as how important the real-life resonance of the stories is, I think it must play at least a small role in the show's success, because it gives the show this sense of suspense from the fact that it seems at least plausible.” ThinkingGivingImportantRealPlayFactsStoriesShowsSeemsRolesReal LifeSuspenseResonancePlausibleSmall Roles Author:Michael Loceff
“I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.” DoeArtSaidPlayFactsHandsLeftWorkStrangeFingersReactionsThank GodDedicationHikingBloodySan FranciscoEnslavementLeft HandBouldersHurling Author:Pablo Casals
“Well, there's no doubt about the fact that, that higher energy prices lead to greater conservation, greater energy efficiency, and they also, of course, play a useful role on the supply side.” WellsPlayFactsCoursesEnergySidesRolesDoubtGreaterHigherNo DoubtEfficiencyConservationEnergy Efficiency Author:John W. Snow
“Other than his ex-wife and despite appearances with a series of cultivated blondes, Edward de Bono has never publicly aligned himself with a woman. 'I’m looking for a fat, cross-eyed hunchback,' he explains, stifling a giggle. 'A prosthetic hump would do.' His delight evaporates when asked about his three grandchildren. 'Am I a doting grandfather?' He pauses. 'I’m a … something grandfather, yes.' The fact that De Bono remains unperturbed by this lack betrays an emotionally austere childhood, and his passions for play, toys, and bad jokes tell of the same deprivation.” PlayFactsPassionThreeWifeChildhoodJokesCrossesRemainsSeriesDelightAppearanceFatsDespiteBetrayToysGrandfatherPausesGrandchildrenExesDeprivationGiggleStiflingEx WifeProstheticsBad JokesHis Ex Author:Antonella Gambotto-Burke
“It was the best 10 years of my career, in fact they are the only team I ever actually played for. That’s what happens when you play for Everton, you forget the rest, the rest means nothing.” YearsMeanPlayFactsHappensForgetCareersTeamEverton Author:Duncan Ferguson
“I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved the fact that it was dealing with kind of adult-extended adolescence, which I think is always interesting - a bunch of people that don't wanna grow up.” PeopleThinkingKindIdeasPlayCharacterFactsGuyGrowsInterestingGrowing UpAdultsBunchDumbAdolescenceTypicalDumb Guy Author:Jim Gaffigan
“My father wanted me to play pro football, and he didn't like the fact that I'd left school. And he said, "It takes a man to play football. And any fool can go up on the stage and make an ass of himself.” MenSaidPlayFactsWantedSchoolFatherLeftStageFootballFoolAssPro Football Author:Bill Cosby
“I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for one reason or other, once more to play at being sane.” ReasonPlayFactsNumbersDecidedPatientCuresInsanitySane Author:R. D. Laing
“I suppose I could think of a lot of things to say about the fact that I still play. But I don't really need to. I can tell you this, that I enjoy it. I still enjoy it. I like to get out in the air and I like to walk and I like to do the things that are involved in playing golf.” ThinkingNeedsStillsI CanPlayFactsEnjoyWalksAirInvolvedGolfPlaying Golf Author:Arnold Palmer
“Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates... But in the nursery, play-ground, fields, gardens, workshops, manufactures, museums and class-rooms. ...The facts collected from all these sources will be concentrated, explained, discussed, made obvious to all, and shown in their direct application to practice in all the business of life.” MadePlayFactsRoomsClassPracticeFourFieldsBuildingTaughtSourceWallGardenDirectObviousRationalMuseumsApplicationWorkshopsNurseryFormalityFour Walls Author:Robert Owen
“When it comes to politics, we have an internal glass ceiling. We stand as good a chance as a man to win a political race, but women don't want to run at the same rate as men do. People point to the work-family balance issue, but I think it's much more than that. Many women don't have children, or have children who are no longer at home. There are some deeper psychological and emotional issues in play, like the fact that many of us feel like the embarrassment, humiliation and personal demonization in politics are simply more than our hearts can take. What stops us is fear.” PeopleThinkingMenWantFeelsHeartChildrenPlayFactsHomeRunningPoliticalWinningChanceRaceIssuesEmotionalBalanceRateGlassesDeeperPsychologicalInternalsHumiliationEmbarrassmentCeilingsGlass CeilingWork Family Author:Marianne Williamson
“I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn't an issue; in fact, when people talk about me being the first female governor, I'm a little absent from that discussion, because I've never thought of gender as an issue. In sports, you learn self-discipline, healthy competition, to be gracious in victory and defeat, and the importance of being part of a team and understanding what part you play on that team. You all work together to reach a goal, and I think all of those factors come into play in my role as governor.” PeopleThinkingFirstsLittlesI CanSelfPlayFactsTogetherOpportunitySportsUnderstandingGoalRolesIssuesImagineTeamTaughtVictoryDisciplineHealthyFemaleImportanceCompetitionDefeatGenderFactorsDiscussionWorking TogetherGovernorsSelf DisciplineAbsentGraciousVictory And DefeatHealthy Competition Author:Sarah Palin
“I'm always surprised when anything about the band connects. But I love the fact that it's hard for people to understand. We've said before that it's always been a great thing to get certain people to go away thinking, 'Oh dear, she can't play the drums!' 'Fine, if you think it's all a gimmick, go away!' It weeds out people who wouldn't care anyway.” PeopleIfsThinkingSaidHardPlayFactsCareCertainFineBandDearGreat ThingsGoing AwayWeedGimmicks Author:Jack White
“Regardless of the extent to which the media promote "politically correct," but scientifically wrong, resolutions from professional societies such as the American Anthropological Association, facts remain facts and require appropriate scientific, not political or ideological, explanation. None of this should be construed as meaning that environmental factors play no part in individual and group differences. But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to these differences becomes more firmly established than ever.” ShouldYearsPlayFactsPoliticalIndividualDifferencesStudyGroupsMediaEvidenceEnvironmentalPassingPassingsFactorsExplanationContributionAppropriateResolutionAssociationIdeologicalPolitically CorrectEnvironmental Factors Author:J. Philippe Rushton
“The opposite of Taking A Risk is of course Playing It Safe The latter would probably be a reasonable way of life for seventy or eighty years if you had a contract to live for a thousand years. However, since you know that is out of the question, you must admit, Playing It Safe is a pretty dull way to live. Those who play it safe are generally not too exciting, in fact they would probably border on being very boring personalities. On a score of one to ten as a Risk Taker where do you stand? Add a little spice to your life today and take a risk.” IfsKnowsWayYearsLittlesPlayFactsTodayCoursesRiskPersonalityThousandTenSafeOppositesExcitingAddBoringBordersDullReasonableScoreLatterContractsThousand YearsSeventiesEightySpicesWay To LivePlaying It Safe Author:Bob Proctor
“I was motivated by the fact that I wasn't happy with my play in this series and felt accountable to the guys. That's enough motivation to want to play well.” WantWellsEnoughPlayFactsMotivationGuyFeltSeriesMotivated Author:Ray Emery
“Joy is a part of my process. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that poetry, as a practice, necessitates a sense of joy. It's exhilarating to come into contact with the things we write into being. And a real sense of play and abandon even when we are relying on hard-won technique, and even when the aim is deadly serious. How often do we get the excuse to stop, think, and then stop thinking altogether and try to listen to what sits behind our outside of our thoughts? Poets are lucky.” ThinkingWritingTryingRealHardPlayFactsJoyPoetryProcessBehindsPracticeSeriousPoetLuckyAimExcuseTechniqueContactAbandonOur ThoughtsExhilarating Author:Tracy K. Smith
“Richard [Griffiths] was by my side during two of the most important moments of my career. In August 2000, before official production had even begun on Potter, we filmed a shot outside the Dursleys', which was my first ever shot as Harry. I was nervous and he made me feel at ease. Seven years later, we embarked on 'Equus' together. It was my first time doing a play but, terrified as I was, his encouragement, tutelage and humor made it a joy. In fact, any room he walked into was made twice as funny and twice as clever just by his presence.” FeelsYearsFirstsMadeTwoImportantPlayMomentsFactsTogetherJoySidesRoomsCareersShotsFirst TimeEncouragementSevenProductionsCleverNervousMade ItEaseOfficialsTerrifiedSeven YearsPottersAugustImportant MomentsTutelage Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“Comics play a trite but lusty tune on the C natural keys of human nature. They rouse the most primitive, but also the most powerful, reverberations in the noisy cranial sound-box of consciousness, drowning out more subtle symphonies. Comics scorn finesse, thereby incurring the wrath of linguistic adepts. They defy the limits of accepted fact and convention, thus amortizing to apoplexy the ossified arteries of routine thought.” HumansBookPlayFactsSoundNaturalPowerfulConsciousnessHuman NatureKeysLimitsBoxesAcceptedComicTunesSubtleMost PowerfulRoutineConventionsPrimitiveComic BookWrathScornDrowningSymphonyNoisyArteriesFinesseReverberationIncurring Author:William Moulton Marston
“Beyond the fact that it is a limitless arena for the full play of human nature, there is no sure accounting for golf's fascination... Perhaps it is nothing more than the best game man has ever devised.” MenHumansPlayFactsGamesHuman NatureGolfArenaLimitlessFascinationAccounting Author:Herbert Wind
“I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still have a desire to play and write songs. I've never wanted to be a career musician. But I still love to play and write. It's a big part of who I am.” WritingStillsPlayFactsBigsWantedDesireSongCareersMusicianWho I AmSongwriters Author:John Congleton