"I feel that I have an obligation to jazz and also to myself to play as good as I can play."
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"As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!"
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"I play better tennis because the court is there."
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"When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds."
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"Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes"
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"Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist."
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"I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to."
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"He revolutionized music videos. Before Michael Jackson, MTV refused to play African-American artists."
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"Each human being can at once be a fighter and forgiver. When self-doubt tortures him, he most play the role of a fighter. And when his own ignorance humiliates him, he must play the role of a forgiver."
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"Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious effort is like forcing oneself to play football in spite of one's utmost unwillingness. One plays, but gets no joy. Conscious effort is like playing football most willingly. One gets real joy. Similarly, conscious meditation gives us inner Delight from the soul."
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"If you play divine music, spiritual music, then you are bound to give and get satisfaction."
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"Everybody is excited about their projects and I'm excited too. It's not like working. It's like playing with your friends. When I was a kid, I'd say to my mother, "Can I go out and play with the kids now?" Now I'm out playing with the kids all day long."
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"For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves, like seeing a play or listening to music."
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"Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child."
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"As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play; until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train."
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"More than anything I want to be fit so I don't get out of breath when I play football with the kids."
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"God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them."
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"I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It`s like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife; plays, the mistress."
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"If you want to play, you gotta pay."
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"You've got to do something to fill up your day. And I can only play so much guitar and watch so many TV shows. It fulfills me. There are two things about it I like: It makes me happy, and it makes other people happy."
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