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“The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.”

People World Play Issues Institutions Complexes Corporations Blanket Assertion Business World

Author:Don Tapscott

“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've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.”

Writing Play Written

Author:Holland Taylor

“I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.”

Knows Stills Play

Author:Ike Turner

“I've always enjoyed interleague play. It gives you a chance to see different clubs, to go to different places. It gives you a good chance to see where you are, where you stand with other teams.”

Giving Different Play Chance Team Clubs Enjoyed Where You Are Different Place Good Chance Where You Stand

Author:Jim Thome

“Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out and play the game hard.”

Years Hard Play Games Ability

Author:Jim Thome

“Every player that plays for any organization, having great fans on your side every night is a great thing.”

Play Night Sides Player Fans Organization Great Things Every Night Your Side Great Fans

Author:Jim Thome

“You can't play forever.”

Play Forever

Author:Jim Thome

“I like to play snooker, golf as well.”

Wells Play Golf Snooker

Author:John Terry

“So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn't studied acting before. I didn't know how to manage money or my career. When I look back, I think I was a little bit shell-shocked.”

Thinking Knows Trying Looks Littles Play Film Felt Bits Acting Careers Know How Little Bit Manage Shells Shocked

Author:Lea Thompson

“I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero.”

Firsts Stills Play Bigs Waiting Hollywood Superhero Paychecks

Author:Miles Teller

“First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song "Mama Says".”

Thinking Knows Firsts Play Whole Stories Film Song Teacher Drama Musical Jeans Belts Mama Footloose

Author:Miles Teller

“My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.”

Play Song Black Radio Pops

Author:Robin Thicke

“It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.”

Play Feelings Running Impossible Cry Notes

Author:Robin Trower

“Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.”

Thinking Want Art Play Character Form Fun Challenges Dark Acting Roles

Author:James Franco

“You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard.”

Men Giving Play Talking Havens Expression Give Me Fingers Plastic Keyboards

Author:Midge Ure

“I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.”

Knows Play Shows Song Roles Records Tree Musician Incredibles Hills Vehicle Tree Hill

Author:Kate Voegele

“I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.”

People Knows Want Giving Wells Two Play Shows Song Stuff Materials Give Me Albums Balanced Archives Recitals

Author:Kate Voegele

“I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition.”

Way Feels Wells Said Play Remember Guy Asking Competition Hey Jagger

Author:Bobby Vinton

“I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.”

Made Play School Band Musician Blue Guitar Velvet Schooled Music In Schools Blue Velvet

Author:Bobby Vinton

“It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.”

Important Play Character Able Actors

Author:Emily VanCamp

“When I was 17, I was always hanging out with the older kids, and a lot of times, the kids that graduated would come back and play pranks. I was a huge, huge, huge prankster.”

Play Kids Huge Hanging Out Pranks Pranksters

Author:Tristan Wilds

“For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you can play their game right back.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Play Games Stupid Advantage Underestimate Disdain

Author:Veronica Webb

“I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents.”

Play President Projects Interpretation

Author:Benjamin Walker

“When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.”

People Play Kids Band Copying

Author:Charlie Watts

“To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.”

Play Able Impossible Als

Author:Charlie Watts

“All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.”

People Writing Play Wanted Song Bus

Author:Chely Wright

“A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.”

Play Song Scene Albums Versus

Author:Dar Williams

“I've always wanted to play more comic parts.”

Play Wanted Comic

Author:Dominic West

“Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.”

Ifs Said Play Night Levels Player Who You Are Every Night

Author:Dominique Wilkins

“It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to decide what you play. I don't know. I can only say this: I don't want to and have no interest in playing a plastic surgeon. That's for sure. I'm open to anything else.”

People Knows Want I Can Play Next Actors Asks Interest Plastic Surgeons Plastic Surgeons

Author:Dylan Walsh

“As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.”

Play Guy Certain Actors Fun Standards Males Patterns Locked Macho

Author:Fred Ward

“As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role.”

Knows Play Certain Actors Roles Models

Author:Gemma Ward

“It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that people start believing because of all of the retouching. You can delve into that fantasy world and play with it, but when you walk away, that's not you.”

People Ifs World Should Believe Hard Play Walks Perfect Fantasy Ideals Fantasy Worlds Retouching

Author:Gemma Ward

“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

“My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from four feet. I'm playing only about once or twice a month. Full-time job. Full-time father. Full-time blonde.”

Two Play Jobs Father Given Four Air Feet Months Lows All Time Blonde Full Time Jobs All Time Low

Author:Jack Wagner

“Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests.”

I Can Play Political Interest Roles Creative Musician Jazz Because I Can Bluegrass

Author:Jeffrey Wright

“I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.”

People Play Character Desire Interesting Views Race Issues Right Now Theater Filled Very Interesting Personal Views

Author:Kerry Washington

“I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where, I mean not in a bad way, but it was right on the page.”

People Way Mean Real Play Actors Pages Research Scripts Envied

Author:Luke Wilson

“I was in a karaoke video in 1991, for a song called 'Sukiyaki,' which is a very famous Japanese song, and I've actually heard from people that they've been in bars in Asia where they've seen me come up in the 'Sukiyaki' video that they play behind you. I'm in that. I'm in a karaoke video.”

People Play Song Behinds Heard Come Up Bars Video Asia Behind You Karaoke Very Famous

Author:Michael Weatherly

“I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.”

Trying Long Play Kids Age School Past Girl Water Team Hair Balls Guitar Glasses Athlete Piano Grades Hockey Throwing Buckets Jocks Long Hair Acne Hockey Team

Author:Michael Weatherly

“My father and mother are both very smart people and I always felt I was a little short of the mark. So I would compensate with a character like Logan Cale. He's wearing glasses, he's in a wheelchair, he's a computer genius. He's very far away from who I am, but I really wanted to play roles where I'd be taken seriously.”

People Littles Play Character Wanted Mother Father Felt Roles Taken Genius Computer Smart Mark Glasses Who I Am Far Away Smart People Very Smart Wheelchairs

Author:Michael Weatherly

“I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.”

Wells Play Wanted Left Hurt Player Musician Baseball Balls Fingers Preacher Baseball Player Muddy

Author:Muddy Waters

“Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.”

Thinking Said Play Mother Interesting Roles Exciting Deeper Teenager

Author:Naomi Watts

“If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.”

Ifs Feels Done Play Bits Stage Like You Weight Passing Passings Instance Torches Staggering Passing It

Author:Samuel West

“Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about being an honest photographer; a photograph is as much of a mirror of the photographer as it is the subject.”

Trying Play Fantasy Subjects Honest Mirrors Photographer Photograph

Author:Tim Walker

“When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing. Storytelling - fanciful storytelling - can only be told through fashion photography. It's the perfect way to play with fantasy and dreams.”

Way Art Ideas Different Play Dream Perfect Fantasy Fashion College Photography Depth Storytelling Different Things Art Photography Fashion Photography

Author:Tim Walker

“I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get the whole spectrum of tones out of it. Since I normally play so hard, when I start picking a bit softer my tone changes completely, and that's really useful sometimes for creating a more laid-back feel.”

Ifs Want Feels Believe Sometimes Hard Play Whole Able Bits Creating Guitar Honestly Tone Spectrum Laid Back

Author:Angus Young

“I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.”

Play Stage

Author:James Young

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