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

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

“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.”

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Author:Dylan Walsh

“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'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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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Author:Michael Weatherly

“When you play a character with power and energy, people lock into that and go, "Oh, this must be the guy."”

People Play Character Guy Energy Locks

Author:Jeremy Piven

“I feel like a new person. I learned how to deal with people when I wasn't a football player. I always wondered how they'd react to me, if they'd respect me. I found out I have other attributes that I like-and that others like. The injury made me a lot more mature. I have a better grasp of reality in life. I'm more patient and giving. I'm a lot closer to my family and more team oriented. I'm so much stronger emotionally. I have proven to myself that I can overcome the most dreaded injury in football. It's almost like dying and realizing life has been given back to me. I can't wait to play.”

“We applaud the people who are film stars, who get elected to an office, who are very athletic, the small group who play with power in a very limited way. But we're completely oblivious to what can be done to the infinite realities that exist in front of us. We deny them.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“People may know me from films, but theater is my first love. I did about 35 plays before I even landed my first screen role. I'm very comfortable on stage, and theater is not something you can just wing.”

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Author:Sanaa Lathan

“Everybody always talks about the pressure of playing at Wimbledon, how tough it is, but the people watching make it so much easier to play.”

People Play Easier Tough Pressure Wimbledon

Author:Andy Murray

“Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.”

People Play Flickr

Author:Louise Mensch

“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've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.”

People Writing Play Wanted Musician Inspired

Author:St. Vincent

“It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.”

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Author:Isabel Wilkerson

“People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.”

People Thinking Wells Play Character Thick Brighter

Author:Kevin Whately

“Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a distraction or diversion. Of course Christianity is deeply personal for every single Christian; nobody gets lost in the kingdom of God. But you can't play that off against the corporate dimension.”

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Author:N. T. Wright

“Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously.”

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Author:Peter Welch

“The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.”

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Author:Dweezil Zappa

“You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from Star Search or Survivor or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.”

People Play Kids Stars Theater Comedian Survivor Stand Up Comedian

Author:Steve Zahn

“Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.”

People Play Community Pleasure Building Reader Transactions

Author:John Hodgman

“The truth is even though we sort of feel like we have equal rights in America, right under the surface we have huge issues at play that really do affect women. It's time for all the women in America and all the women that love women and all the gay people and the people of color that we've all fought for to fight for us now.”

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Author:Patricia Arquette

“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.”

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Author:Will Self

“Capitalists, if you think that you can play footsies with these people, you're wrong. They will come for you and drag you into the streets and kill you.”

People Ifs Thinking Play Streets Capitalist Drag

Author:Glenn Beck

“I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays, in a way, are very old-fashioned. They’re pre-Freudian in the sense that the Greeks and Shakespeare worked with similar assumptions. Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.”

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Author:Sarah Ruhl

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Play Facts Kids Watches Tvs Cowboy Back When Cowboy Movie

Author:Magnus

“I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we are master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through.”

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Author:Max Roach

“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

“Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.”

People Men Real Play Tunes Real Men

Author:Michael Bassey

“People love to say we get paid a lot of money to play a game, but it stopped being a game when you start getting paid.”

People Play Games Paid Lots Of Money

Author:Curt Schilling

“To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.”

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Author:Archie Shepp

“I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.”

People Thinking Ends Play Would Be Fine Horse

Author:Dawn French

“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.”

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Author:Earl Lloyd

“Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.”

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Author:Roone Arledge

“We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.”

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Author:Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

“The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what's going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people start talking about it, and the only way you can keep hold of that is genuinely to keep changing it.”

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Author:Stephen Daldry

“It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.”

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Author:Thomas Friedman

“People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.”

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Author:Anna Friel

“The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.”

People Reason Play Sports Clothes Golf Caught

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“A witty and informative professor posits that more authors do not choose titles borrowed from Shakespeare's sonnets and plays for the reason some people claim not to have partners: "All the good ones are taken."”

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Author:Thomas C Foster

“People who observe no limits in attempting to get work done aren't nearly as smart as they think. Hard work can be done by any fool. But to be highly productive, and still have plenty of time to rest and play, this is where true genius resides.”

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Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.”

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Author:John Frusciante

“Stage presence is not something I spend a whole lot of time thinking about. On the one hand, I do, because I have, like, favorite front-people and I know what's excited me to see in a band. But I can't be David Yow [Jesus Lizard frontman] and still play guitar.”

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Author:J. Robbins

“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

“I was very lucky once I got started with a career. I happened to get some really good parts to play with some really good people to play with.”

People Play Careers Happened Lucky Good People

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Zen people love Buddha so tremendously that they can even play jokes upon him. It is out of great love; they are not afraid.”

People Play Jokes Not Afraid Great Love

Author:Rajneesh

“Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.”

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Author:Robert Fulghum

“Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.”

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Author:Mary Oliver

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