“If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full.” IfsFeelsPlayLightMorningMinutesFruitEggsBreakfastLunchAfternoonBananasSluggishCarbsPorridge Author:Rory McIlroy
“We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living — the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living — is play. Art and play.” ArtPlayPainLife IsSufferingMorningStudyGoes OnGet UpCrapWorth LivingPain And Suffering Author:Brian Sutton-Smith
“We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.” MadeTwoPlaySleepBreakMorningOughtEightClockMarchMidnight Book:My Early Life: 1874-1904 Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904
“You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing to another. The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys, which is all bad outer-space stuff. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen.” KnowsPlayStuffVoiceSpaceMorningPlansOne ThingChangedTearsPlanetsTerribleScreensDestroyedHaving FunJapanLengthToysCartoonRobotsAnimatedMenaceOuter SpaceDoings Author:Orson Welles
“I used to play until 4 o'clock in the morning.My dad would go nuts - he'd scream and say the cops are gonna come and break our instruments.” PlayUsedBreakMorningDadInstrumentsMy DadClockNutsScreamCop Author:Kamasi Washington
“In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I lead a very middle class life. I work in the mornings, I have lunch, I practise my clarinet, I go to the movies, I eat out in restaurants or watch ball games on television or at the ball games.” RealHardPlayCharacterFilmGamesClassWatchesMorningMiddleTelevisionBallsReal LifeRestaurantsMiddle ClassLunchCompetentPractiseBall GamesClarinetMiddle Class Life Author:Woody Allen
“In theater, there's a lot of discipline involved in doing eight shows a week for a year and a half. It's nice to be able to bring some of that bag of tools with you over to the film world, where you don't have the rehearsal, you don't have an audience. You don't have a month of rehearsal to examine these words, and you meet the guy who's going to play your brother the morning that you shoot the scene. So you need a bag of tools.” WorldNeedsYearsPlayShowsAbleFilmGuyHalfMorningAudienceNiceWeekBrotherMonthsDisciplineInvolvedSceneToolsTheaterEightBagsRehearsalYour Brother Author:William Sadler
“Honestly, just waking up every morning with headaches is tough, to know that I can't play tonight or I can't run tonight. Once the headaches started going away a little bit, I knew I had a chance.” KnowsLittlesI CanPlayRunningBitsChanceMorningLittle BitToughWake UpHonestlyTonightGoing AwayWakingEvery MorningHeadacheWaking Up Every Morning Author:Alecko Eskandarian
“Sometimes they'll make little Play-Doh animals, and when they go to sleep, I'll break the heads off the animals and put them at the foot of their beds for them to discover in the morning. Nothing wrong with sending your kids a little Sicilian message.” LittlesSometimesPlayKidsSleepAnimalBreakMorningFeetBedMessagesGoing To SleepSicilian Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail.” PlayWalksMorningBabyHusbandMy HusbandLunchAfternoonMailShovels Author:Annie Dillard
“I wanted to be an actor, an astrologer, an astronaut; a lot of different things were going through my mind. But I also wanted to play guitar. I mentioned to my parents that I wanted an electric guitar for Christmas. They got me one! I sat there all Christmas morning making a lot of loud horrible noise.” MindDifferentPlayWantedActorsParentMorningGuitarHorribleNoiseLoudSatDifferent ThingsElectricAstronautElectric GuitarChristmas Morning Author:Joan Jett
“I used to go play football matches in the morning, and Id go straight from me football game to a dance competition.” PlayUsedGamesMorningFootballCompetitionFootball GameFootball Match Author:Tristan MacManus
“But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics saw fit to be as foolish as to say that I was a great actress. And I thought, that was a foolish, wicked thing to say, because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry. And it took me years to learn enough to live up to what they said-for those first notices. I find it so stupid. I remember the critic very well, and have never forgiven him.” YearsFirstsWellsSaidEndsEnoughPlayAbleRememberResponsibilityMorningVirtueSawsStupidFitWestCriticsActressesFoolishWickedMaskForgivenThey SaidNever ForgiveMorning AfterWest EndWicked Things Author:Vivien Leigh
“A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.” IfsPlayWholeMorningEasierEveningPersonal LifeRehearsing Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal
“I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.” WritingTryingYearsTwoPlayThreeGamesHoursMorningFiveFourWeekClubsBridgesTournamentsDuplicate Author:Louis Sachar
“I am always working on the go. I have never had an office that I work out of and work has become intertwined with my personal life. Fortunately I am able to work from my home and can answer my e-mails in the morning, play tennis or kitesurf in the afternoon to keep fit and have meetings or phone calls in between.” PlayHomeAbleAnswersMorningFitOfficeMeetingsPhonesWork OutTennisAfternoonMailPersonal LifePhone CallsIntertwinedAlways Working Author:Richard Branson
“Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.” WritingWellsArtPlayChanceBoysMorningGoes OnOfficeLondonProducersThese DaysSecretaryRubbishMy Boys Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Everybody who plays top-level sport, whether it's golf or football, or whatever, needs to get into 'The Zone'... For me personally, on the morning of a round, preparation is always about getting into the zone. The less I communicate with other people, the better. I'm trying to rehearse in my mind what I am working on in my game: going through my swing keys, going through my putting keys. When I get to the course I get the pin positions for the day and I'll analyze those. I'll make a strategy for the golf course and look how I'm going to play it” PeopleNeedsTryingMindLooksPlayCoursesGamesSportsLevelsMorningPositionFootballKeysStrategyGolfRoundsCommunicatePreparationZoneSwingsPinsGolf Course Author:Paul McGinley
“You can't be genuinely prosperous unless you have personal freedom. You will have attained true personal freedom in this world when you can get up in the morning when you want to get up; go to sleep when you want to go to sleep; and in the interval, work and play at the things you want to work and play at - all at your own pace.” WorldWantPlaySleepMorningThis WorldProsperityGet UpPaceProsperousGoing To SleepIntervalsPersonal FreedomWork And Play Author:Ernie J Zelinski
“In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.” WantTryingMayPlayHappensActionActorsMorningAccidentsWhat You WantCartoonAction MovieAccidents Happen Author:John Hench
“Meditation is the one thing I do every day - meditate, pray. I do reading in the morning and try to center myself. I play music every day because that is very centering.” TryingPlayReadingMorningMeditationOne ThingPrayingCentering Author:Mason Jennings
“We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit!” MindFirstsMayCountryPlayFeelingsLightLastsHeavenWishLibertyMorningSunObjectsProduceGratitudeGlorySightRisingNativeTemplesShoreDedicatedDependenceSummitPartingColumnsPiousSpires Book:An Address Delivered at the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843 Source: An Address Delivered at the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843
“There is a great gulf between the Christianity that wrestles with whether to worship at the cost of imprisonment and death, and the Christianity that wrestles with whether the kids should play soccer on Sunday morning.” ShouldPlayKidsChristianityMorningCostWorshipSoccerSundayImprisonmentSunday Morning Author:John Piper
“I remember coming to New York, in 1974 to do a play here called Equis. And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets and I thought, "I'm home." I felt really at peace here.” FirstsPlayHomeRememberFeltMorningStreetsNew YorkWalking Author:Anthony Hopkins
“In the old days when I first was coming up, you would turn up on set in the morning with your coffee, script, and hangover and you would figure out what you were going to do with the day and how you were going to play the scenes. You would rehearse and then invite the crew in to watch the actors go through the scenes. The actors would go away to makeup and costume and the director and the DP would work out how they were going to cover what the actors had just done.” FirstsDonePlayTurnsActorsWatchesMorningFiguresSceneDirectorsScriptsWork OutCoffeeMakeupGoing AwayInvitesCrewCostumesOld DaysHangover Author:Paul Bettany
“I have the possibility to watch Messi in training each morning, and because of what he demonstrates he is the best player in the world, he stated during a press conference. It is a pleasure to watch him, and because of the way he plays he is an undisputed leader of the Barcelona team.” WorldWayPlayPleasureLeaderWatchesMorningPlayerTeamPossibilityTrainingPressesConferencesBest PlayersBarcelonaMessiWatch MePress ConferencesUndisputed Author:Thierry Henry
“I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.” WantTryingDonePlayFilmMorningFiveBedExciting Author:Kristin Scott Thomas
“I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go have my favorite meal, 'second breakfast,' or grab coffee with friends, or play basketball. Then, around noon, I begin apologizing via email for the manuscripts I can't get to.” WritingI CanPlayMorningBasketballMy FavoriteCoffeeMealsBreakfastApologizingEmailCookiesNoonManuscriptsLattes Author:Jess Walter
“There was a point in my teenage years, when we were starting to play bigger shows and females were running after tour buses and all that, and my mom - and I remember this like it was yesterday - said: 'Look, I want you to know that I couldn't be prouder of you. You are extraordinary. You move people. But it doesn't make you better than them. You still put your pants on the same way as them, one leg at a time every morning.' I thought about learning to jump right into them, just to mess with her. But what she said stuck with me, and I think it's true.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantYearsLooksSaidStillsPlayShowsRunningRememberMovingMorningMomFemaleBiggerExtraordinaryStartingLegsMy MomYesterdayStuckMessBusPantsEvery MorningI Want YouTeenageTeenage Years Author:Justin Timberlake
“I know a lot of people dread going to work every morning, but my work is playing pretend and doing stunts and screaming. It's a lot of fun and I get to play dress up. Every day is exciting and different and new and cool. I couldn't be more grateful.” PeopleKnowsDifferentPlayFunMorningExcitingDressesGratefulDreadEvery MorningGoing To Work Author:Nina Dobrev
“There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.” IfsWorldPlayMotherRoomsMorningCallingSilentPhonesRingsTelephonesMorning AfterRoom Service Author:David Mamet
“Our nights didn't begin until after noon. Because in the old days, you'd start Birdland at 8:30 or 9 pm and play until 4 in the morning. Then you'd go out to the corner and talk to a couple of musicians - I used to talk to Oscar Pettiford a whole lot - you'd stand there till 7, 8 or 9, or else go down to the jam session at Minton's.” PlayWholeUsedNightMorningCoupleMusicianCornersOscarsSessionJamOld DaysNoonPms Author:Charles Mingus
“The bottom line is that I wanted to come back and play in the Premier League again and wake up on Saturday morning and really fancy getting out there and playing in front of this fantastic support, scoring goals and enjoying football. (on returning to the premiership)” PlayWantedEnjoyGoalLinesMorningSupportFrontsFootballEnglandWake UpBottomFantasticLeagueFancySaturdayBottom LinePremier LeagueSaturday MorningScoring Goals Author:Michael Owen
“My reading was good enough to play big-band charts, but I ran into trouble with Claude (Thornhill)'s theme song "Snowfall," which had a repeating bass line in D-flat that was very difficult for me to finger using my self-taught technique. I spent one morning figuring out an alternate fingering, and that started me on the way to learning a better use of the fingerboard.” WaySelfEnoughPlayUseBigsSongReadingDifficultLinesMorningTroubleTaughtBandFingersTechniqueRanThemeFlatsGood EnoughBassSelf TaughtSnowfallFingerboard Author:Bill Crow
“Bourbon Street is like playing, a tourist, you know? It's just a tourist attraction ... those musicians on Bourbon Street, they play all day. They might start at 12 noon and end at 3 in the morning, like, it's like sets, like a job. You go play, take a break, play again, take a break, then later on that night, the club gets busier, then you play some more. There's pride. They're a group of great musicians- and they're holding it down.” KnowsEndsPlayMightJobsNightBreakMorningGroupsStreetsPrideMusicianClubsAttractionNew OrleansTouristsNoonGreat MusicGreat MusicianBourbonBusierBourbon Street Author:Troy Andrews
“I have physical problems with listening to reggae. It's weird, I don't know why. It doesn't fit the way my heart pounds, and I feel very bad when I hear it. I have a neighbor--she's a waitress who comes home every night at four in the morning and she plays reggae very loud. I hate that. I can't sleep and I can't wake up either to that music.” KnowsWayFeelsHeartI CanPlayProblemHomeNightHateSleepMorningFourListeningMy HeartFitI HateWake UpNeighborLoudPoundsComing HomeEvery NightWaitressReggaeCan't SleepI Can't Sleep Author:Nina Persson
“I take exercise for each part of the body: arms, legs, back and whatever muscles are required to keep the body fit. I do at least 20 different exercises daily for my upper and lower body. Then I come here every morning to do calf raises and play tennis. If there is time in the afternoon, I play tennis again. At least three hours I spend on weightlifting and bodybuilding.” IfsDifferentPlayBodyThreeHoursMorningArmsFitExerciseRaisesLegsTennisMusclesAfternoonEvery MorningBodybuildingCalvesParts Of The BodyWeightlifting Author:Sri Chinmoy
“I know the president is quick. I have friends who played with him during the campaign; they say he's very good. I told the president that whenever the next pickup game is, I'll get on the plane to Washington - but sometimes they play so early in the morning.” KnowsSometimesPlayNextGamesPresidentMorningVery GoodCampaignsPlanesPickups Author:Dikembe Mutombo