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Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.
I've always loved absurdism and plays of that genre. I think that my humour is very much rooted in theatre and drama.
I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.
Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.
I think confidence plays a massive part. If you go into a game confident, you will try things, and they will come off.
And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.
It is the best feeling in the world to have a close game come down to just a couple of plays and you are able to do it.
Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.
Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.
Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'
You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections.
'We need a guy who plays dodge ball and thinks he's a pirate - get me Alan Tudyk on the phone!' Those are the jobs I do.
I was always an exhibitionist. I liked it when everyone laughed. But I didn't do plays in high school. I was too nervous.
Sometimes I was in school plays, but only when the kid they'd originally picked got sick and they asked me to substitute.
Yeah, I play a lot of point guard. LeBron plays a lot of point guard. A lot of people are thinking too much on positions.
Minecraft has a terrible sound engine. Imagine a looping sound file that plays for two seconds and then just starts over.
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.
I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.
I had a very progressive drama teacher who would buy all the plays that were in New York and bring them to suburban Texas.
I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with them.
I was lucky that audiences in Mexico liked my work. I was even luckier when I got to do movies and plays with my brothers.
Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.
One of the first plays I ever did was at the Royal Court Theatre in London; it was the first play I got after drama school.
Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.
In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.
I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.
As technology plays a major role inside and outside the classroom, we want to make sure education innovation is accessible.
If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.
How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here.
The lead actor, along with the director, plays a big role in what the vibe will be on set, and that's a huge responsibility.
The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea.
I was very aware of 'League of Legends' because my brother plays it a lot, but I hadn't gotten the chance to play it before.
I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine.
At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.
I like to ground plays in reality so they can jump higher. So we can account for the trampoline, so we can account for the leap.
Americans don't like puns and plays on words, which is totally opposite in the comedy world to France or even Italy and Germany.
I've got songs that sample 'Mario Bros.,' 'Charlie Brown,' the 'Rugrats' theme, the music that plays when you turn on a Gamecube.
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
I was always the kid who was putting on plays, and so I have no idea how to describe it. I just have always wanted to be an actor.
The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject.
I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.
I just play hard on the defensive end. For me, being a good defender is someone who plays very hard on defense and just tries hard.
There's no question I'm responsible for some of the plays and some of the games we haven't won. I'm not going to shy away from that.
I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.
I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.