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“Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.”

Mind Long Play Character Guy Father Given Changed Lovers Illusion Wide Range Villain Cop Bad Guys

Author:Navid Negahban

“The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.”

People Want Mind Self Play Problem Might Pay Crazy Stage Self Esteem Lows Standing Asking Instruments Esteem Low Self Esteem Drive Me Crazy

Author:Colin Quinn

“Finally, let's keep well in mind the most important lesson of the auto rescue: While government should stay away from the private sector as much as possible, markets do occasionally fail, and when they do government can play a constructive role, as it did in the case of the auto rescue.”

Should Mind Wells Important Play Government Roles Cases Failing Lessons Rescue Constructive Private Sector Important Lessons

Author:Steven Rattner

“You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.”

Thinking Mind Play Moments Used Games Sports Ready Training Preparation Pitcher Ballparks

Author:Hank Aaron

“In the world of interactive multi-media highways we are all traveling somewhere interactively and we are all shopping for something, our dreams, our hopes, our ambitions for ourselves, for those we love - these little scenarios we play out endlessly in our mind.”

World Mind Littles Play Dream Humanity Media Buddhism Ambition Shopping Our Dreams Highways Scenarios Those We Love Interactive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.”

Ifs Mind Self Play Sports Player Health Buddhism Participation Sense Of Self Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.”

Should Mind Children Doe Play Body Form Teaching Exercise Lessons Elements Slavery Harm Your Children Compulsion Epistemology Pedagogy

Author:Plato

“Luck, good or bad, is the invisible play of mind upon affairs, the effect of mental aptitudes and habits which are not in sight, but which work and bring forth their due issues.”

Mind Play Issues Effects Habit Sight Luck Affair Dues Invisible Aptitude

Author:James Vila Blake

“I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.”

People Mind Different Hard Play Joy Song Wish Millions Written Keys Glad

Author:Chuck Mangione

“I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.”

Want Mind Play Character Roles

Author:Daniel Cudmore

“The Internet plays an ever more significant role in the sedulous promotion of terrorism. We know that in the U.K., groups gather to view the preaching of violent men located many thousands of miles away and that this does have a powerful effect on young minds.”

“As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions.”

Mind Children Play Wanted Actors Doctors Profession Lawyer Flight Flight Attendant

Author:Lavrenti Lopes

“I want to be a starter again, I would really enjoy playing for the Phillies again, but my first consideration in making my decision is finding a circumstance that is right for me. I want to play for the Phillies again, but I also wouldn't mind joining a team I've never played with before.”

Want Mind Firsts Play Enjoy Decision Team Circumstances Findings Consideration Joining Starters

Author:Chan Ho Park

“I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.”

Writing Mind Play Obsessed

Author:Jeff Daniels

“But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour, odour, texture... And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world... the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind.”

Ifs World Mind Play Whole Individual Magic Groups Objects This World Tricks Impression Observation Colour Scope Chamber Texture Impressionism

Author:Walter Pater

“Mind, word and act; all three must be filled with the belief that all is His play; that is the genuine path.”

Mind Play Three Belief Path Filled Genuine

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially, as well as at the hands of the police -- because if we went out on the street to play baseball, for example, the police would come and beat us up and put us in prison.”

Ifs Way Mind Wells Play Hands Streets Childhood Example Bears Beats Baseball Police Prison Dictatorship Adolescence Repression

Author:Daniel Ortega

“Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?”

Mind Play Shows

Author:Charles Olson

“If form is mechanically applied, it may indeed result in work that is conventional, if not pedantic or stupid. But form used well can become the very vehicle of freedom, of discovering the creative surprises that liberate mind-at-play.”

Ifs Mind Wells May Play Form Used Results Creative Stupid Surprise Vehicle Discovering Conventional Pedantic

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.”

“You can lose your ability to play romantic scenes... you have to ensure that your mind is in the right place.”

Mind Play Loses Ability Scene Right Place

Author:Genie Francis

“Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world of the unknown mind, with vast concepts looking enormous just beyond the front yard.”

World Mind Children Play Action Fear Dark Creative Fronts Concepts Adults Enormous Fearful Yards Dark World Adult Children

Author:Arthur J. Deikman

“Terrible, it was terrible. Even today and it's been several months now you just bring it up and I tear up a little bit, terribly. You know when you're that close that long and got along as well as we did, we seldom had any serious arguments. We might have - might discuss which movie we wanted to see and what play we wanted to go to, where we ought to go for a vacation but that usually didn't last very long because we were much of the same mind all the time.”

Knows Love Mind Wells Littles Long Play Might Today Wanted Lasts Bits Love You Tears Serious Months Ought Terrible Little Bit Argument Vacation Time Love

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.”

Men Mind Play Son Wind Equal

Book:New poems

Source: New poems

“Our state of mind plays a major role in our day-to-day experiences as well as our physical and mental well-being. If a person has a calm and stable mind, this influences his or her attitude and behavior in relation to others. In other words, if someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.”

Source: Path To Tranquility

“Robert Duvall taught me years ago. He said, "You know theatre is not real. I don't like plays." You know, he doesn't like plays. And I agree with him in certain ways, you know. They can be fun. I don't mind going to see them. I went and saw Phantom of the Opera. I thought hey, that's cool. Look at the mask and all that.”

Knows Way Years Mind Looks Said Real Play Certain Fun Saws Taught Years Ago Agree Theatre Hey Mask Opera Phantoms

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the irresistible effect - to intoxicate, or overwhelm. They looked to analysis to provide them with the keyboard on which to play, with certainty, on man's emotions, and they sought in abstract meditation they key to sure and certain action upon their subject - man's nervous and psychic being.”

“I’m definitely excited to have a fresh start. Talking to the coach [Bob Hartley], talking to management, they want me to have success, and that definitely makes your life easier. It keeps your mind free to just go out there and play as good as you can, instead of worrying about giving up bad goals and having to prove yourself every night – not just to the public, but to the coaching staff and everybody else. That’s definitely a nicer way to feel comfortable, if you know they have your back.”

“I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.”

Ifs Mind I Can Play Orchestra Violin Conducting

Author:Edwin Land

“You can make anything into a play for the simple reason that the human mind is one of the best writers in the business. So, if you've got a writer who's clever enough to give you enough clues, you will fill out every blank spot in a play, every single one.”

Ifs Giving Mind Humans Reason Enough Play Simple Clever Spots Human Mind Blank Clue

Author:Morgan Freeman

“To a female superhero her sexiness is not the most important thing about her, it's her mind, her spirit, and when I look at that character that to me is an example of characters that I like to play and I think it does a great thing for women.”

Thinking Mind Looks Doe Important Play Character Spirit Example Female Important Things Great Things Superhero Sexiness

Author:Jessica Chastain

“A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit; Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild, Sick lust of souls, and an abortive child; Born between whores and fops, by lewd compacts, Before the play, or else between the acts; Nor wonder, if from such polluted minds Should spring such short and transitory kinds.”

Ifs Should Mind Kind Children Soul Play Form Lost Language Born Wonder Spring Weak Sick Wit Lust Conception Pits Transitory Jargon Diseased Babel

Book:The Works of of the Rev. Jonathan Swift

Source: The Works of of the Rev. Jonathan Swift

“The life of God - the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things - may be described as a play of love with itself; but this idea sinks to an edifying truism, or even to a platitude, when it does not embrace in it the earnestness, the pain, the patience, and labor, involved in the negative aspect of things.”

Mind May Doe Ideas Play God Pain Enjoy Involved Negative Aspect Labor All Things Absolutes Embrace Unity Earnestness Platitudes Truism

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world.”

Men World Should Mind Wells War Play Hands Suffering Games Nations Wise Subjects Baby Kings Hero Toys Spoil Mischief

Author:William Cowper

“I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I have a good inner ear. I know pretty well how a thing is going to sound on the stage, and how it will play. I write to satisfy this inner ear and its perceptions. That's the audience I write for.”

Knows Writing Mind Wells Long Play Sound Audience Stage Perception Ears Devotion Playwriting

Author:Tennessee Williams

“O Sun, great Oriental, my proud mind's golden cap, I love to wear you cocked askew, to play and burst in song throughout our lives, and so rejoice our hearts.”

Mind Heart Play Song Sun Our Lives Proud Golden Rejoice Caps

Author:Nikos Kazantzakis

“The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States the play of the mind is perhaps the only form of play that is not looked upon with the most tender indulgence. His piety is likely to seem nettlesome, if not actually dangerous. And neither quality is considered to contribute very much to the practical business of life.”

Ifs Men Mind States Play Seems Form United Quality United States Dangerous Intellectual Various Practicals Luxury Manifestation Indulgence Piety Playfulness

Author:Richard Hofstadter

“I was obsessed with the idea of sitting next to someone and playing a game that we were both competing in, and we were also competing with the computer. That was mind-blowing to me at that time. It was just so cool to think about the computer being able to play with us, and then also [for] us to compete.”

Thinking Mind Ideas Play Able Next Games Computer Sitting Obsessed Competing Mind Blowing

Author:Robin Hunicke

“Seeing the play ( A Lie of the Mind ) clearly is part of why I wanted to direct it. I see hope at the end of this play. People talk about how dark the play was, but I feel like, if you really look at the darkness, you're able to go through it, and you realize that you can handle dark moments in life and that everything will be all right.”

People Ifs Feels Mind Looks Ends Play Moments Able Wanted Lying Realizing Dark Darkness Seeing Direct Handle Dark Moments

Author:Ethan Hawke

“Everybody likes to say that Roger Federer is the Greatest Player of all time because its so nice to watch him play...but you have got to throw in Nadal's Mind as well...and That's the GREATEST OF ALL TIME!!!”

Mind Wells Play Watches Nice Player Likes All Time Roger Federer Nadal

Author:Rafael Nadal

“The song is about knowing the end result of every situation you're in, and being able to play it out in your mind and see it before it happens. It's about addiction, really, about knowing how it's all going to end up. In that sense, you're watching a movie of yourself all the time - and then you want out of that movie.”

Want Mind Ends Play Happens Able Song Results Situation Knowing Addiction End Results

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“We must nevertheless present all possible interpretations for each observation, so that competing theories can be formulated and defended. In science, as elsewhere, intellectual inertia, the fashions of the moment, the weight of institutions, and authoritarianism are always to be feared. Heresies play an essential role by keeping our minds argumentative and alert.”

Mind Play Moments Roles Fashion Theory Essentials Intellectual Weight Institutions Observation Interpretation Elsewhere Nevertheless Competing Heresy Authoritarianism Inertia

Author:Hubert Reeves

“I was hoping in the last fifteen minutes that Barcelona would beat them. I've made my mind up on Benitez tonight. He's a nice man but he's got a huge negative streak running through him. Liverpool was terrible in the second half. They didn't play football. If that was a concert, you'd boo. Gerrard: found out. A nothing player. They were terrible. Terrible.”

Ifs Men Mind Made Play Running Lasts Found Half Nice Player Minutes Football Huge Terrible Beats Negative Tonight Concerts Fifteen Liverpool Streaks Barcelona Nice Man

Author:Eamon

“If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical language simply as a play upon words. Its full significance is revealed only when we approach it in a different manner, making our minds available to the new processes of inner perception which it suggests.”

Ifs Mind Different Play Seems Language Process Attitude Perception Approach Western Average Available Significance Usual Paradoxical Mental Attitude New Processes

Book:Living Zen

Source: Living Zen

“Oh, nobody would ever want to know me in Hollywood. I'm far too puffin-faced for that, too weird-looking. No, I think I'll probably stick to telly, if telly'll have me, though I wouldn't mind doing radio plays as well.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Mind Wells Play Hollywood Sticks Radio Know Me Radio Plays Puffins

Author:Tamsin Greig

“To see Good Tennis! What divine joy Can fill our leisure, or our minds employ? Let other people play at other things; The King of Games is still the Game of Kings.”

People Mind Stills Play Joy Games Divine Kings Tennis Leisure

Author:James Kenneth Stephen

“Our Sages refer to Prayer as "Service of the Heart". But the heart cannot work properly unless the brain functions to stimulate and control its operation. In the physiology of Prayer, too, the mind plays as vital a role as the heart.”

Mind Heart Play Prayer Brain Roles Function Operations Sage Physiology Brain Function

Author:Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

“Don't get me wrong - I love Jason Kidd. He's a great point guard (But) how am I comparing myself to him when I think I'm the best point guard to play basketball? That doesn't make any sense. I mean, how can I sit here and compare myself to somebody if I already think I'm the best?I'm telling you what it is: I know I'm the best point guard in the NBA. I don't need anybody else to tell me that. When I go on the basketball court, if I think about what you're all saying, I'll lose my mind.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Mind Mean Play Loses Goes On Basketball Court Compare Nba Jason Basketball Court Point Guard

Author:Stephon Marbury

“At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find the inner motivation to search for new ideas on your own. With any luck at all, you’ll never need to take an idea and squeeze a punchline out of it, but as bright, creative people, you’ll be called upon to generate ideas and solutions all your lives. Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.”

People World Way Needs Mind Ideas Play Problem School Motivation Creative Solutions Luck Solve Best Way New Ideas Thrust Creative People Punchlines

Author:Bill Watterson

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