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When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war
To be successful, you have to expose yourself to different situations-different styles of play, different teammates, different coaching.
Technically he is perfect and he plays so naturally, almost without effort. It's like when Roger Federer plays tennis, he barely sweats.
The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy!
It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.
The reason I play so hard is that somewhere out there is some kid who has never seen me play before, and I don't want to disappoint him.
I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.
I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.
I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican,' but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
I don't know if I'm the best. There are better shooters, better defenders, but there aren't too many female who play the game like I do.
You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.
I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.
In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.
I like to play bad guys, since good guys are always beaten up several times during the movie. Bad guys are beaten only once, in the end.
They were worried we wouldn't get any radio play at all[ for "A Deal with God" ]. That's why it was changed [to "Running Up That Hill"].
If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.
My family has reduced the effect of my career on my self-esteem. When I'm with them, they make me feel special regardless of how I play.
Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.
The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.
Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.
If you play a Nickleback song backwards you'll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you'll hear Nickleback.
I just like to play anything that's competitive. If I'm not competing against somebody, then I might as well play something I can enjoy.
Competitive spirit is still at a premium. The more you win, the better you play, the more money you make, so they all have that in mind.
I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if I could play with it sculpturally.
I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. Anybody who has a good shot has got to take it and keep taking it. So he misses...so what?
Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
When I find something good, I stick to it for like a month. I'm usually late on like other stuff. Kendrick Lamar, I can play that often.
Well, there are some who claim I'm more of one nation than another, but that's not true, Eddie. I'm of all nations, I play no favorites.
I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.
By the time I was 9, I was frequently asked to play exhibitions at grand openings, fund-raisers for charities, and other special events.
In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
It's great fun to memorize somebody's biography, and then liberally play with the real facts of their life and go a step beyond reality.
When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.
In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.
I just try to make sure that when I get there on the floor, I play as hard as I can and try to do everything I can to help the team win.
You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war...not a good comparison.
The only reason why I acted in school was because of the community, like I was in the chorus of every play, I was never really the lead.
I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.
I love a hard-hit ball, a diving-play situation where you realize afterward there was no thinking involved. It was 100 percent reaction.
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
I'm going to give up hits, so I'm going to need to get some ground balls, double plays and stuff like that. That's just kind of my game.
No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher
There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.
I was more aware initially of shows like Tales of the Unexpected. And the BBC used to put on a lot of one-off, bizarre television plays.
Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.
Especially working with Adam Brody, he's just so funny in every day life. Working with him is a lot of fun. We play pranks on each other.
The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.