"Every girl wants to play Bridget Jones."
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"If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people." "And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water."
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"I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid."
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"I wanted to play the Apollo Theater because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long."
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"I sometimes get very protective of the people I play."
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"A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood."
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"If I can walk, I'll play."
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"I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all."
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"From 13, I wanted to play drums. I wanted to play with good people and I'm still doing it. I still love it so that's why I do it."
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"Ten years from now, it'll all be the blues because that's the only speed I'll be able to play"
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"Gaps can be very emotional. I mean, that's in my drumming. When I drum, you know, I don't need to drum all over the track. I play with the singer and I can back off."
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"I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play."
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"Every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to. Even as a Beatle, they'd say, 'Oh, double-track that.' I don't know how you do that, because when I'm in a fill I'm sort of this blackout, just this pure me coming out and I can't pure me the same, twice. So, that's that."
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"I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play."
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"To love without role, without power plays, is revolution."
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"I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors."
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"And while my mind is telling me I'm flirting with her just to prove a point, my body wants to play "you show me your perky privates and I'll show you mine."
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"Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately."
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"'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls."
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"Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!"
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