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“I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.”

Thinking Kind Play Happens Parent Natural Passionate Intense Progression

Author:Jodie Foster

“I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.”

Years Kind Play School Left High School Gas Hockey Dropouts School Dropout High School Dropout Pumping Gas

Author:Adam Oates

“At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.”

Ifs Wells Kind I Can Different Ends Play Character Would Be Able Beautiful Known Careers Approach Crafts The End Of The Day Different Kinds Beautiful Life

Author:Adepero Oduye

“After my second-to-last record called "The Greatest," I had gone on tour for a while and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, not anger towards myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.”

Years Kind Self Play Lasts Challenges Gone Records Five Self Esteem Instruments Esteem Five Years Disappointed Challenging Myself

Author:Cat Power

“I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters.”

Knows Looks Kind Sometimes Play Character Fun Enjoy Worry Comedy Too Much Risk Deluded Physical Comedy Worrying Too Much

Author:Amy Poehler

“In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she would be crafty in a clever kind of way.”

Knows Way Years Kind Play Would Be Next Female Doctors Clever Versions Doctor Who Crafty

Author:Billie Piper

“With TV, you have so much to get done during the day that you don't really have a lot of time to feel your way through it. I know before I walk on the set exactly what I'm going to do. With film you can kind of find your way in it a little more, play with it some.”

Knows Way Feels Kind Littles Done Play Film Walks Tvs

Author:Lee Pace

“Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.”

Wells Kind I Can Sometimes Hard Play Winning Opposites

Author:Agnieszka Radwanska

“Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.”

Kind Play Politician Statements Redundant

Author:Alan Rudolph

“I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I’m going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It’s a kind of discipline.”

Needs Writing Trying Kind Book Different Play Discipline Down And Notes Different Things Tape Journal

Author:Amy Ray

“As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to play some kind of ethnic stereotype or something that was typed specifically for a person of color.”

Thinking Kind Persons Play Light Able Guy Actors White Color African American Stereotype Latino American Guys Ethnic Stereotypes

Author:Daniel Sunjata

“It's just interesting that people don't really know about the roles that I play that are darker. I kind of do a huge blend of really big light things but also really dark indie things, and it just sort of happens to work out that way.”

People Knows Way Kind Play Bigs Light Happens Dark Interesting Roles Huge Work Out

Author:Brittany Snow

“I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that's the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member.”

Years Kind Play Actors Social Stuff Deals Audience Issues Stage Members Driven Really Great Social Issues Stage Actors

Author:Danny Strong

“I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.”

People Kind Play Character Marvelous Superficial

Author:Holland Taylor

“I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.”

Kind Ends Play Middle Theater Scripts Hospitals Opera Spontaneous Toes 80s Soap Soap Operas Be Spontaneous General Hospital

Author:Jack Wagner

“I had all these desperate feelings. I kept thinking, How will I ever play football again if I can't even get out of this bed? I was an invalid. Football had given me everything: identity, money, confidence, friendships. I wondered what kind of man I would be without it.”

Ifs Thinking Men Kind I Can Play Feelings Would Be Given Identity Football Bed Desperate American Football

Author:Keith Millard

“When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.”

Men Kind Play Kids Stuff Enjoy Pacs Arcades Atari

Author:Jack McBrayer

“I have a pet peeve about bands that don't play their hits. I think it's kind of selfish.”

Thinking Kind Play Band Selfish Pet Peeves Pet Peeve

Author:Art Alexakis

“I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before.”

Thinking Feels Kind Matter Done Play Moments No Matter What

Author:Kerry King

“If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.”

People Ifs Firsts Kind Play Creating Exciting Capture Listeners

Author:Joss Stone

“That’s the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark, but play boldly and no one will question you. If one believes there is truth in art – and I do – then it’s troubling how similar the skill of performing is to lying. Maybe lying is itself a kind of art. I think about that more than I should.”

Ifs Thinking Should Believe Kind Art Stills Play Lying Secret Missing Skills Performances Mark Notes Conviction Performing

Book:Seraphina

Source: Seraphina

“I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.”

Kind Play Guy Order Careers Figures Villain Employed Bad Guys

Author:Jeffrey Pierce

“I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make peace' and then somehow magically that will get translated into the real world. No, that's not the kind of games that I make.”

World Kind Real Play Games Fans Figures Real World Making Peace Simulation

Author:Jane McGonigal

“One kid said to me, he said, Mr. Lloyd, we really owe you. And I explained to him, man, you owe me absolutely nothing. I said, whatever kind of career I had, it has served me well, but you do owe some people. And the people you owe are the folks who are going to come behind you. It's incumbent upon each watch — when you play your 10, 11 years and you're in your group — when you leave, I truly hope that you've done all you can possibly do to leave it a better place for the folks who come behind you.”

People Men Years Wells Kind Said Done Play Kids Behinds Careers Watches Groups Folks Better Place Behind You Absolutely Nothing Incumbents

Author:Earl Lloyd

“I always thought, if you're gonna do TV, you want to play a straight, solid, pillar-of-the-show kind of guy.”

Ifs Want Kind Play Shows Guy Tvs Pillars

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.”

Kind Play Character Wanted Mother Capable Tragic Firefly Larger Than Life

Author:Leslie Easterbrook

“Every team has kind of a style or adjectives people use to describe the game that the team plays.”

People Kind Play Use Games Team Style Adjectives

Author:Rachel Martin

“If you play men, in a way it's easier. You can have a voicebox, you can have false hair, mustaches, wigs, you can have all kinds of stuff. But when you're playing women playing men, you only really have yourself to work with, plus tiny little extras.”

Ifs Men Way Kind Littles Play Stuff Hair Easier Tiny All Kinds Extras Plus Wigs Mustache

Author:Janet McTeer

“Every now and then I'll think of something to put back in the show. I just kind of play it off the top of my head. If I do it that way it keeps it kinda fresh.”

Ifs Thinking Way Kind Play Shows Now And Then

Author:Willie Nelson

“I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of styles and play a lot of different kinds of music. We're getting toward the end of our business collaboration. If you could envision a record that you wanted to hear from me, what kind of record would it be?" It wasn't like asking him to fill an order, it was really just a conversation. For all the things I'd ever asked him, this was one thing I'd never asked, and I don't know why. So I was curious. And the thing that he was most interested in hearing was a solo record.”

“Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.”

Kind Play Would Be Able Wanted Sound Musician Decided Abstract Fabric Repetition Fragments Experimentation

Author:Terry Riley

“If you play the same club every week of every month, it's kind of boring. It's great that you can play one night in Brazil and one night in Japan, one night in Europe, and see the world. It's amazing what you see if you travel around the world.”

Ifs World Kind Play Night Week Months Europe Clubs Boring Around The World Japan One Night Brazil

Author:Tiesto

“Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.”

Ifs Way Years Believe Kind Children Littles Play Certain Talking Audience Adults Don't Believe Reaching Talking Down

Author:Walt Disney

“After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams like running quicksilver, and the moonbeams play over the grassy stretches of the plateaus...The Bad Lands seem to be stranger and wilder than ever, the silvery rays turning the country into a kind of grim fairyland.”

Kind Country Play Seems Running Faces Clear Land Rivers Stranger Rays Moonlight Grim Gleam Wilder Nightfall Moonbeams Plateaus

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.”

Way Kind Play Certain Speak Jazz All Kinds Cuban Bluegrass Music Speaks Cuban Music

Author:Andy Garcia

“I like to play women who are not strong at all, because, there's certainly plenty of myself that is no kind of a warrior.”

Kind Play Strong Warrior Plenty Not Strong

Author:Nick Offerman

“You don’t think when you play music, you just try to play and be in it. It is the same for me when the writing is going really well. It’s the same kind of feeling. I’m just in it. It’s not the words, it’s not the sentences, I’m not aware of it. Then it’s good.”

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Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.”

Kind Play Character Roles Hero Drama Conflict Investment Villain Just Being Being A Hero Anti Hero

Author:Randeep Hooda

“[...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contray the Christian danger.”

People Way Needs Kind Self Play Helping Running Christian Lying Jesus Kindness Failing Sacrifice Danger Development Goodness Be Kind Self Development

Book:Commonplace Book

Source: Commonplace Book

“Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have known nothing if their distinguished opponents had taken no notice of them. There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.”

Ifs Knows Should Kind Play Known Know How Taken Should Have Revenge Cards Dust Opponents Contempt Nothingness Oblivion Distinguished Unworthy Should Have Known No Revenge

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“Rush like a river from the highest mountain, drink from the fountain and stop your counting. What kind of wine does he have in his tavern, oh so enchanted and sing like a mad man. Mad with the love of a wife for her husband, child or mother, sister or brother... sing for the Most High, sing for no other. We are all notes in this eternal song, God plays his flute and we all dance along.”

Men Kind Children Doe Play Mother Song Wife Brother Drink Husband Mountain Eternal Highest Rivers Mad Wine Notes Fountain Counting Enchanted Flutes Mad Men Taverns

Author:Trevor Hall

“I'm really curious how the private listening - iPods, people listening on their phones - how that might eventual effect music. There'll be a whole genre of music that really works on a kind of one to one headphone or earbud level but doesn't really work when you play it in a room.”

People Kind Play Whole Might Levels Rooms Effects Listening Phones Curious Genre Ipods Headphones Genres Of Music

Author:David Byrne

“Writing is a completely private act. It's in a way like play but very serious play, and sometimes I can escape into the fictional world that I'm creating so fully as to see hours go by without my noticing it. I think that kind of suspension of time and that mindfulness is a real gift.”

Thinking World Way Writing Kind I Can Real Sometimes Play Hours Serious Mindfulness Creating Noticing Suspension Fictional Worlds

Author:Antonya Nelson

“Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.”

Kind Play Arms Baseball Legs Chess Collectives Sunlight Arms And Legs

Author:Jacques Barzun

“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.”

People Thinking Kind Ideas Play Character Facts Guy Grows Interesting Growing Up Adults Bunch Dumb Adolescence Typical Dumb Guy

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.”

Men Kind Play Seems Young Credit Cards Young Man Credit Card Deck

Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“I have fun. I enjoy my life. And I was hardwired for a deep connection between service, God, and happiness. You kind of need all of those things to be in play for one to have the others.”

Needs Kind Play Fun Enjoy Connections Having Fun Deep Connections

Author:Will Smith

“I've always been more interested in the audience than I have in the plays. I like that idea of all those people sitting in the dark together. It's kind of fun.”

People Kind Ideas Play Together Fun Dark Audience Sitting Sitting In The Dark

Author:Liev Schreiber

“I'm the kind of person [who] when I'm doing a play, and even when I'm working, I don't do anything else. When I'm working, I just work.”

Kind Persons Play

Author:Jessica Chastain

“For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend.”

Years Kind Play Lasts Wonderful Calling Offers Silly All Kinds Waltz Silly Movie

Author:Robbie Robertson

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