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My parents played the Bee Gees; Earth, Wind & Fire; Michael Jackson. The best pop music to infiltrate a child's mind.
I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.
I played with the youth national team, I played in some CONCACAF games, and it's always physical; it's always intense.
After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.
Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.
I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.
I have that blue-collar mentality. I've always played with a chip on my shoulder, and I've always been hungry to learn.
I've played for Real Madrid, where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and really win absolutely every game.
There are a lot of Washingtons that have played football. I could just blend in more and carve out my own name quietly.
Life is so fast. And I still remember when I came up to the big leagues and played as if it were yesterday. Time flies.
It's surreal to think that no one has played as many Test matches for England. I suppose it's a credit to my longevity.
My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was 'Just William.' It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel.
It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.
I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
Kolkata will always be special to me, for the simple reason that it played a crucial role in the way my career shaped up.
Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.
Where I'm from, Bastrop, Louisiana, you played football, basketball, and baseball; you ran track - and that was about it.
In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.
Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.
Over the past decade, I've been lucky to have witnessed and played a part in Manchester City's rise as a club and a brand.
The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.
My form of rebellion was starting to play guitar. I was 13. The first song I played was 'Lovesick Blues' by Hank Williams.
I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.
Israel has been a stage on which American Jews have played out their fantasies of toughness - often from Martha's Vineyard.
Beyond monetary policy, fiscal policy has traditionally played an important role in dealing with severe economic downturns.
Some of my closest friends, the England lads, have played in the Champions League, so it's a big thing to be there as well.
It was so freeing to branch out and work with people like Josh Dun of 21 Pilots who played on 'Savage' and 'Almost Had Me.'
Oh, everything we did was completely organic - from the way we looked to the way we sounded, the way we played - everything.
The music scene in Michigan is really folky and bluegrass, but my parents played a lot of disco. They really liked to dance.
I have played nasty people, but not everyone has seen that stuff. Before 'The Office,' I mainly got cast as little toe-rags.
I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.
I was in a movie with Angelina Jolie called 'Life Or Something Like It' where I played her fiance, and I have a song in there.
I started when I was in sixth grade, playing Pop Warner. I played running back, quarterback, cornerback... all over the place.
I played for so many years in Barcelona, and I have so many friends there, and a lot of good memories of my time at that club.
Imagine if you could go watch Mozart today, even if it's the last, crappiest show he ever played. What a thrill that would be.
I always said if I played a drag queen, I'd want to create a template with the realness they talk about in 'Paris Is Burning.'
I played the young Reese Witherspoon in 'Sweet Home Alabama' when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10.
But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.
I am delighted to learn that the small part I played in the campaign to protect the white cliffs of Dover has been so effective.
A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
I have played so many romantic roles that I don't know if I am really a romantic in real life. I get confused about the real me.
When it comes down to it, I always played hard for my teammates and I played hard for my coaches no matter who it was, ownership.
For me at 16 and 17 years old, I wasn't even playing for the academy teams. I hardly played in the starting XI for the Under 19s.
Magic Johnson didn't play the style that Larry Bird did, and Michael Jordan sure didn't play the style that Magic or Bird played.
My father was a musician, a songwriter and he played at bars and restaurants and my mom was a secretary for an insurance company.
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.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.