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Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways
I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.
I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too.
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.
Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.
In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.
Russell [Wilson] plays really well in the pocket [and] outside the pocket. He’s just a play waiting to happen.
I think you're bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It's not something you often do in comedy.
Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.
Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
If you're going to play together as a team, you've got to care for one another. you've got to love each other.
When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.
I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.
When you start worrying about who you're going to play, it could bite you. Because it really shouldn't matter.
You know a man can play the part of a saint just so long for a day comes when his true, his true self unfolds.
Don't go so deep in yourself that you no longer exist for your partner and for the character and for the play.
I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad.
I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life.
I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century.
Erica Kane was a spectacular role for any actress to play, and I felt so lucky to be the one who got to do it.
The iPad! What is better designed than that? I read magazines on it, I play Scrabble. I use it for everything.
Not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.
The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
I think its more interesting to play a place where no one really knows you, but I think touring is also great.
Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.
An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.
Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.
You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all.
I talk, watch TV, spout opinions, schmooze, negotiate, talk some more, play games, and have a little cocktail.
Fish play in the water birds play in the sky ordinary beings play on the earth sublime beings play in display.
I dont play golf or tennis, I dont ski, I dont snowboard. If you love what you do, you never get enough of it.
The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.
I just want to play for the people, give my new sound to them, and encourage them and be encouraged by people.
I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.
You can always speak with great authority on how well you played today, but never on how you'll play tomorrow.
I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.
I don't think I've ever played a 'hot chick' before. I always play the quirky friend or the really angry girl.
God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.
I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.
A lot of coaches play percentages when it comes to me, but that's just a way of saying that you can't stop me.
Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist?
Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.
A global deal will only be possible if Britain plays its part, leading the way with other developed countries.
I know what my strengths are and what theirs are and what the three of us do is play for the good of the team.
In the end, we are not the roles we play. We are the light that animates every soul in the dance we call life.