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“I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.”

Thinking Trying Play Tragedy Enormous Great Tragedy

Author:Marian Seldes

“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

“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'm 100 percent sure this is it. I know that I'll never play in the NHL again. It's not a hard decision. I think the hardest thing is you get a little emotional talking about your family. I couldn't have played any longer than I did and I accomplished what I wanted to.”

Thinking Knows Littles Hard Play Wanted Decision Talking Emotional Percent Hardest Our Family Accomplished Hardest Thing Nhl Hard Decision

Author:Chris Chelios

“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

“In the summer after sixth grade, I took a class at St. Robert Bellarmine. My first role, I was the villain in a play, and I forgot all my lines. I think I cried my way through the performance.”

Thinking Way Firsts Play Lines Class Roles Summer Performances My Way Grades Villain Cried Sixth Grade

Author:Nicholas D'Agosto

“I've always loved sports and hockey is a sport I play as much as I can. I love it. In a weird way it's like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one. I mean when I play hockey I don't think about anything.”

Thinking Way Mean I Can Play Sports Church Exercise Therapy Hockey

Author:Michael Vartan

“I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a bit of an exaggeration. I would say, judging from myself, that it takes at least eight or nine years. But it does not take any longer than it takes to learn to play the piano or the violin. If it takes twenty years, you might as well forget about it!”

Ifs Thinking Years Wells Doe Said Play Might Bits White Forget Judging Twenties Photographer Eight Nine Piano Minors Violin Exaggeration Nine Years

Author:Paul Strand

“I'm sitting in the bleachers, watching longingly as all the boys and umbumped girls in my Personal Health and Fitness class play Muggle Quidditch. I don't even like the game very much, I think it's silly, but I so miss physical activity that I'd be thrilled if I could run around the gymnasium with a broom between my legs, chasing after the human snitch wearing a gold pinny.”

“My thing is, I want to play basketball, I would enjoy playing in the D-League, but at the same time I don't want to take an opportunity away from a young guy to get exposure. I'm still thinking about it.”

Thinking Want Stills Play Young Guy Opportunity Enjoy Basketball League Exposure Young Guys

Author:Michael Finley

“Women are tough campaigners. They certainly know how to withstand attacks. And I think we make a mistake if we say, as some do, that women should play by different rules, or that they are somehow especially vulnerable to the rules of politics. I don't think that's true.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Different Play Mistake Know How Tough Vulnerable

Author:Ellen Malcolm

“I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime.”

Thinking Play Past Athlete Prime Pro Athlete

Author:Lynn Samuels

“Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just makes you sharp, 'cause it's live. Really, to me, it separates the men from the boys. I always say it's like the frontlines of acting, when you're on stage.”

Thinking Men Play Causes Acting Boys Stage He Man Huge Commitment Yeah Frontline

Author:Yul Vazquez

“I think I was 8 or 9 when I did my first play. It was at a community level, but that's when I knew that this is what I loved doing.”

Thinking Firsts Play Community Levels

Author:Lavrenti Lopes

“Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places.”

Thinking Needs Play Young Games Quality Player International Plenty Realising Competing High Quality Good Quality Time Of Need Newcomers

Author:Alessandro Del Piero

“I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.”

Thinking Firsts Two Play Shows Months Involved Six Models Theater Males Forty Plastic Six Months Casting

Author:Austin Peck

“You got to play the flute as a flute, like that. You can't play like a tenor concept on soprano; it sounds wrong. But some guys do it, and they think it's O.K., but not so!”

Thinking Play Guy Sound Concepts Flutes Tenors Sopranos

Author:Jerome Richardson

“I'm always looking for something that's real and that's got meat on it. I think it's artistic suicide if you're too vain, or if you're afraid to play ugly. I would never fall for that.”

Ifs Thinking Real Play Fall Suicide Ugly Artistic Vain Meat

Author:Bill Skarsgard

“Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.”

Thinking Knows Want Trying Hard Play Shows Easier

Author:Benmont Tench

“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.”

People Thinking Inspirational Stills Hard Done Play Hard Work Fool Genius Limits Smart Plenty Productive Attempting Work Done True Genius

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“The military doesn't teach rifle marksmanship. It teaches equipment familiarity. Despite what the officer corps thinks, learning to shoot a rifle is not like learning to drive a car. Instead, it is like learning to play the violin.... The equipment familiarity learning curve comes up quick, but then the rifle marksmanship continuation of the curve rises very slowly....by shooting one careful shot at a time, carefully inspecting the result (and the cause).”

Thinking Play Causes Results Teach Military Car Gun Shots Come Up Careful Despite Shooting Officers Equipment Curves Familiarity Violin Rifles Continuation Learning Curve Marksmanship

Author:Daryl Davis

“It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.”

Thinking Play Would Be Age Difficult Growing Difficulty Determine Sermons

Book:The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

“I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.”

Thinking Play Feelings Ability

Author:John Frusciante

“Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.”

Ifs Thinking Way Long Play Able Wish Attention Environment Rocks Instruments Train Guitar Musical Divides Solo Guitarist Guitar Playing Train Of Thought

Author:John Frusciante

“I think it's crazy for us to play games with our children's future. We know what's happening to the climate, we have a highly predictable set of consequences if we continue to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Children Play Games Crazy Happenings Consequence Our Children Climate Atmosphere Global Warming Predictable Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases

Author:William J. Clinton

“Soundgarden and Metallica, The Ramones, Everclear... I think they all wanted to see if we still knew how to play.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Play Wanted Metallica Ramones

Author:Rick Nielsen

“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.”

People Thinking Knows Stills I Can Play Whole Hands Jesus Stage Fronts Band Guitar Excited Lizards Stage Presence

Author:J. Robbins

“As far as how important the real-life resonance of the stories is, I think it must play at least a small role in the show's success, because it gives the show this sense of suspense from the fact that it seems at least plausible.”

Thinking Giving Important Real Play Facts Stories Shows Seems Roles Real Life Suspense Resonance Plausible Small Roles

Author:Michael Loceff

“I don't think I've ever gone on stage to be an asshole. I know one thing, from the past, and that's that my intentions always began in a pure way. I really want to just try and play the songs.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Trying Play Past Song Gone One Thing Stage Pure Intention

Author:Ryan Adams

“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 did The Seagull, the Chekhov play, on Broadway, a couple of years ago, and I had done it in London, and I became completely obsessed with the character, Nina, that I played in that. She's an actress. I couldn't find a play after that, that I wanted to do, because I couldn't think of doing anything else. Every part is a disappointment, once you've done that part.”

Thinking Years Done Play Character Wanted Couple Years Ago Disappointment Actresses London Obsessed Broadway Seagull Chekhov Nina

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's funny.”

Ifs Thinking Real Play Situation Comedy

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I'm a jet jockey and I've always escaped ever since I was a kid. I've always been a weekend type runaway person. Work hard, play hard type thing. It's not been a mid-life thing at all, it's been a habit because I think it changes your environment and how you feel even if it's for the day. It's a good thing.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Persons Hard Play Kids Environment Hard Work Type Habit Good Things Weekend Our Environment Jet How You Feel Runaway Play Hard Jockeys Work Hard Play Hard

Author:John Travolta

“Sometimes when you play music, you start thinking, "This is rocking!"”

Thinking Sometimes Play

Author:Bret McKenzie

“It sounds like I'm channeling or something, and I don't really fully understand what it is. I'll get a piece of paper and write down what I think is coming to me. And I'll play it once. Whether it's being recorded or not, I can then usually remember it for a sometimes shocking amount of time.”

Thinking Writing I Can Sometimes Play Remember Sound Pieces Amount Paper Shocking Channeling

Author:Ryan Adams

“In an automobile, if you think about the navigation system - of all the cars in the world, four out of five cars in the world if they have a navigation system have something from Nokia inside that car - the data, the platform, something. So we play a very strong role there.”

Ifs Thinking World Play Strong Roles Five Four Car Data Very Strong Platforms Automobile Navigation Nokia

Author:Stephen Elop

“Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.”

Thinking Life Play Wonder Inspirational Life Balance Draws Dance Paint Balanced Life Balance Balanced Life Music And Dance Coping Mechanisms Work And Life Balance

Author:Robert Fulghum

“I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or the play - but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.”

Thinking Play Problem Answers Theatre Statements Great Things Accurate

Author:Arthur Miller

“We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.”

Thinking Men Ends Play Artist Player Creator Destroying Manipulate Seducing Fabricate

Author:Jean Houston

“I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach.”

Ifs Thinking Life Play Music Listening Survival Desert Islands Composer Being Alone Pianist

Author:Glenn Gould

“I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film history and film structure. I just think it's easier to think in pictures.”

Thinking Feels Play Kids Film Easier Structure Feel Better Film History

Author:Zoe Kazan

“Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in the communication of important and serious feelings.”

Thinking Important Play Feelings Dream Roles Serious Communication Tricks Surprising Frivolous Pun Play On Words

Book:The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy

Source: The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy

“When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!”

Thinking Play My Own Stress Intensity New Music

Author:Bela Fleck

“What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music?”

Thinking Writing Years Play Happens Waiting Pieces Expression And Love Thirty Sincere Composer Thirty Years

Author:Charles Mingus

“I think that's why I play tennis, because of the challenge, because of the competition, .. That's why we love to play tiebreaker in the third set. It makes it more exciting, and the bigger support in the stand, and more fans involved in it. I really enjoyed the competition and took a lot of hard work to make myself No. 1 at 18 years old.”

Thinking Years Hard Play Challenges Support Fans Hard Work Involved Thirds Bigger Exciting Competition Enjoyed Tennis

Author:Maria Sharapova

“Performers always come back from the Edinburgh festival with adventure stories. Watts told a few: meeting a young kilt maker who spent a year in a madhouse after eating too much LSD, and accompanying Seattle actor and musician Michael McQuilken (of Collaborator Productions) to the hospital after a Frisbee accident. He reached up to catch it and cut his hand on a sign, .. He had to get a few stitches, but I think he can still play.”

“I would think I'd accomplished it all if I could get to play Quasimodo.”

Ifs Thinking Play If I Could Accomplished Quasimodo

Author:Elias Koteas

“It's about how the players play and compete. I know everybody is going to equate that on winning or losing, like they always do, but if we play hard and compete well in the game .. then I think we are building on something.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Hard Play Games Winning Player Building Losing Win Or Lose Play Hard

Author:Nick Saban

“Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?”

Thinking Years Play Might Twenties Decent Freak Weirdo Gaga

Author:Noel Gallagher

“Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It: Fosters the healthy, creative and emotional growth of a child; Forms the best foundation for later intellectual growth. Provides a way in which children get to know the world and creates possibilities for different ways of responding to it. Fosters empathy and wonder.”

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