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We grew up in Woolton, Liverpool. We didn't have much, but it was irrelevant. We played out a lot with all the kids on the street.
I tried to avoid anything that caused me frustration or grief or duress. I played FarmVille and procrastinated like all teenagers.
There is only one Jose Mourinho. I have played under a lot of great coaches, but there is no other character in the game like Jose.
King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.
You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.
I can work my butt off and create an album that's wonderful, but if it's never played and never given the outlet, it won't succeed.
My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.
I haven't played well regardless of what minutes I get, I gotta have a positive impact on the game and that's the frustrating part.
Everybody on my street was broke, running around with no shoes on. We didn't have money, but we played tag, we talked. It was great.
My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!
I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.
But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.
I played on a 10'x10' chessboard at a hotel in Miami. The pieces were heavy, and I got tired just making a move. Not cool with that.
In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.
What I've learned about acting is that it needs to be mysterious. If you overthink how a beat needs to be played, it can trip you up.
Look, I have no qualms about having played basketball. The game has done so much for me. Look at the places I've been, for one thing.
People who go to concerts hear Beethoven's symphonies hundreds of times, but 'Star Trek' is recorded, so it's not played all the time.
Almost every character I've ever played - and sometimes this is very conscious and sometimes it's not - I need to find what they love.
The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.
When I played Hope in 'Booksmart,' I was like, 'I could see myself with a woman.' Because, literally, I was seeing myself with a woman.
I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.
I play a lot of sports. I played football for 12 years, I like tennis, I surf, I snowboard, and I ski. I always like to do an activity.
But in Hollywood especially, I think the most exciting thing for me is to finally see that LGBTQ parts are being played by LGBTQ actors.
I played against men most of my life because our goal was that I wanted to reach the highest potential to be an absolute world champion.
Superstitions actually played a big role in my life. I wouldn't even go on a casting call if I had a hunch that it was an 'unlucky' day.
The decisions I've made have not always been the most popular, but when I look back, I want to know I've played for good football teams.
Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.
I have always worn the No.10 shirt when I played at lower levels and, obviously, my reference point was always Pele and then Ronaldinho.
I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.
I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years.
What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
I grew up in New York City: Harlem, New York. I played ball for probably two of the biggest amateur basketball organizations in the city.
I've been told I've done a lot of flop movies. And I think, 'Wow, I've never considered them flops!' I've loved every character I played.
You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
Paolo Maldini. He was tough, tough, every time we played against each other. And I played against him many times. He's a very good friend.
A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.
I played at being someone else in movies and live theater, and at being myself in life's most intense, fascinating game - the game of love.
I was Renee Zellweger's fat doppelganger. If she ever played in a movie where she needed to be fat, apparently I could be her stunt double.
For me, every practice and match I've played, it feels like the year is short and long at the same time. I'm aware of all the work I put in.
I'd say that 98 percent of the bands we've played with through the years have either broken up or are stuck in some kind of '80s revival now.
I played hockey, as most girls who go to convent schools in Ireland do, as well as table tennis and badminton - all the rock 'n' roll sports.
I didn't set out to be a villain in film. I'm a character actor, and if my first movie was a comedy, I could have played a geek just as well.
When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
People make up things. If you ask the guys in this clubhouse I played with, I've never been a troublemaker. I don't know where that came from.
I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.
As an independent artist, there can be nothing better than the fact that your song will be played and heard in different corners of the world.
The best team I played in was the Brazilian one in 2002; we felt that we could always score. It was a team without any vanity - or individuals.