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"I play a bunch of instruments, like piano, drums, guitar and bass. And the kazoo every now and then. I'm trying to learn how to play the trumpet and the saxophone. That's what I'm learning how to play."
"I don't care about money."
"I love her. My piano. play the sh*t outta her."
"I play all my own instruments. I write my own material. And I do not lip-synch. I sing live."
"I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones."
"I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably am. The thing Jesus really would've liked would be the guy who plays the kettle drums in the orchestra."
"Play to your strengths." "I haven’t got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself. "Excuse me," growled Moody, "you’ve got strengths if I say you’ve got them. Think now. What are you best at?"
"Oh, he knows how to play, little bitty baby Potter."
"This World Youth movement claims to represent and affect the politico-social activities of a grand total of forty million adherents - under the age of thirty...It may play an important and increasing role in the consolidation of a new world order."
"It's funny, people talk about the characters they play and who do you sort of see yourself as or which ones maybe were closest to you and in some ways."
"Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child."
"150 years ago in [Charles] Dickens's time there was at least a sense of craft. So some of the things people had inside of them, they had the possibility of expressing in the making of things - even in a daily way with their clothes or their food. People made a good deal of both themselves. Now our daily lives are almost all consumption. Craft plays a tiny role."
"It's boring to play the girl role!"
"Music plays a big part in my life. I am a big music nerd."
"Trying to find this industry's tendency to celebrate the physical is a waste of time. So I'm happy to play the game. But I am also thirsty for input. I'm not a dunce whose only skill is knowing how to take a photograph, you know? And at the end of the day, I think it makes me slightly less replaceable."
"I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended."
"Sometimes they come to you and it's a small role, so it's about the experience and the journey and mixing with people you know you will learn from. Or sometimes it's a scene in a movie that you think, 'I just have to play this person.'"
"My life is not a game that I play to entertain you."
"My son youngest son David's favorite song - he plays guitar - and he likes "Devil Pray." That's his favorite."
"If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man."
