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As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.
If you want to play quicker you can start running faster, but it's the ball that decides the speed of the game.
I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest.
I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it.
I think Clapton is brilliant. He's the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the guitar.
If you play the game and you think about coaching, you should know it's about listening to people and learning.
I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.
A physicist shirking measurement plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and ... his toys.
It's better to play to the host as though in a real conversation and let the audience listen in- which they are.
I've realised over the years I play my best when I have time to prepare for each tournament as best as possible.
The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.
That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want to talk about mechanics.
I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.
I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.
I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?
Never play the Devil's Advocate. Your words could be the difference between success and failure in someone else.
The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.
Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
Play is as necessary to the perfect development of a child as sunshine is to the perfect development of a plant.
Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.
I still think of myself as punk, because the way I became empowered to play music is entirely due to punk bands.
Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
I love to go see live music. That used to be what I would do, almost every other night, and watch drummers play.
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
What I say goes. I'm hitting shots that I want to hit. I'm doing the things that I want to do. I play it my way.
You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.
I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah.
The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again.
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.
I'm going to make the playoffs. You can believe that. To never play in the playoffs, that will not be my legacy.
Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.
'Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play.
There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.
I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.
It don't make sense: either you a soldier from the start, Or a actor with a record deal tryin' to play the part.
Eat till you're full. Play anytime you want. Sleep as much as you like. Cry. Get angry. Laugh. Live. Live. Live.
I just go out there and play basketball. God's given me the ability. The only thing I can do is go out and play.
I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.
Jackson plays a broken guitar because he’s in love with it, and doesn’t want to fix it, I think. It’s so broken.
When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.
I think the most important thing to realize about play is that it's this thing that's in stuff, it's not in you.
I decided to pursue an acting career after having had an incredible experience working on a play in high school.
My favorite song to play is 'Smokin'' by Boston. I actually had a chance to play that with the band Boston live.
I feel like music does have a role to play in waking people up; it can be an alarm clock or it can be a lullaby.
I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.
A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.
Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.
Films make me into some cheap turn...You bet they'll never let me play a part in a film where a Negro is on top.