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I was a college football fanatic, and I wanted to play, not sit on the sidelines. It's tough when you know you're just a project.
We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence.
I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.
I view every game I play for England as it could be my last, so I go out there and enjoy it. It's the only way I can approach it.
The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.
Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite, All are on their rounds tonight; In the wan moon's silver ray, Thrives their helter-skelter play.
You don't make a film and then be like I am only going to play it in my house and no-one is going to see it - that is ridiculous.
I've played guitar for years, and wanted to play guitar, but we got halfway through the last one and realized we hadn't used any.
To just write one song to then go and play huge festivals all around the world it's exciting and it's never really been the case.
I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.
I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.
I always try to get as personal as I can with the characters that I play, which is a reason why I don't play a lot of characters.
I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.
It is impossible for forward play to be quite as safe as back play, because there must be a moment when the ball is out of sight.
I can't just wake up and watch TV and do nothing. I need a day off working out, seeing the wife, play a little golf, see my kids.
Me neither,” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.” “I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all,” Amelie said.
As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.
Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others.
It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.
PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.
In my country (Belgium), if you sit beside the phone long enough, it will ring and you will be invited to play rugby for Belgium!
It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.
I do want to play the short ball and I do want to play the long ball. I think long and short balls is what football is all about.
I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.
Songs like "Spirit Carries On" really gets the audience moved and on the same page. It's challenging and all so much fun to play.
I love any scene where there's a physical confrontation. It reminds me that I'm in show business and I play pretend for a living.
But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.
Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me.
Tatum plays so much piano it sounds impossible. The more I hear him, the more I want to give up the piano and drive a milk truck.
Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.
I don't think musicals are my thing. I'm not a big fan. Definitely have to get on the stage and do something like a straight play.
I get tired of hearing my ballplayers bellyache all the time. They should sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves play.
When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.
We approach markets backwards. The first thing we ask is not what can we make, but how much can we lose. We play a defensive game.
Say Say Say What you want But don't play games With my affection Take take take What you need But don't leave me With no direction
When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.
When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.
Every work brings new and different challenges. Research is always helpful, regardless of whether the play is contemporary or not.
A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.
If you're creating a smile in yourself and also giving it to someone else, then you've started a dialogue. You also start to play.
No matter what the characters you play, you have to find the differences in them, especially when you are doing a political movie.
The World Cup gave me a lot of confidence - just to know that I can play at the highest level and not only complete but play well.
I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music.
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.
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
And I have two eyes. I’ve seen that little melodrama play out between you and that other tracker. Fish? Flounder? What’s his name?
Linebacker is a lot more detail oriented and you have to know a lot more than a defensive end necessarily would on any given play.