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You can't even sing or play an instrument, so you just scream instead. You're living for an image, so you got five hundred women in your bed.
Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.
I don't know whether our watching the play in these times was a coincidence or divine intervention but time and again, we were introspecting.
People already love to play casual games. But when you take a casual game and stick it inside a social network, it becomes way more exciting.
I love to sing, but I'm just terrible. I play guitar, and I play enough where I can play most country stuff, and I'll sing when it's just me.
It doesn't matter if it's a school play or a dumb TV show. It's your work. You should care about it so much that people get annoyed with you.
My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.
Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
Some people become dullards, but as children we are all creative. It's in the programming, the socialization, that we lose our sense of play.
I never read a book if I'm auditioning for a film based on it. I like to stick to the script only because that's exactly what I have to play.
The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.
I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.
I am playing the music I love and I really play it from my heart, and whatever the out form is - it doesn't matter whether it's art or music.
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself
Tennis has always been a big challenge to me and to be able to play that kind of tennis - well, only tennis can produce these feelings for me.
We've always just gotten up there and played. We don't have any dancers, we don't have all that stuff going on, we just get up there and play.
You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game.
The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.
I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.
Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.
I don't think I can be intimidated about working with any comedic actors. It felt great to get to play hardball with the big boys as they say.
Maybe if you play somebody in a certain world people sometimes misinterpret that it's a support of that world or that occupation or something.
I love things where I can be physical and I so love high stakes, and you usually don't get that unless you're doing a play or an action movie.
I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what I'm playing.
May was so great to work with, he even took me over to Japan for some dates. It blew me away when he let me play his guitar on stage with him.
I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport.
We never use the condition of the footballs as an excuse. We play with whatever or kick with whatever we have to use and that's the way it is.
For me, when you have to prepare to play God, and then walking away from that, you realize just how tough God's job is. I don't want that job.
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.
The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.
We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.
Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.
There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.
It's easier for me to accept that I can't play anymore because I literally gave it all I got. That allows me to be a little bit more at peace.
The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.
I was lucky enough to just play music as a living and not have a nine-to-five job. I didn't have to pay the bills so I was able to experiment.
Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt.
You can play jacks, and girls do that with a soft ball and do tricks with it. Oh, Oh, dog Biscuit, and when he is happy he doesn't get snappy.
Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.
They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.
The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes; And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.
Best trumpet: Mike Vax, an alumnus of the Kenton Band, who plays every style with a bright cutting edge, throwing in bop riffs here and there.
'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.
We can't do both. If you want us to lead, don't criticize us. And if you want us to play a supporting role, then tell us who is going to lead.
My music is very emotional. The reason why I want to play music is very emotional. I want to call out my emotions and package them into music.
In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.
Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.