"What they call "play" (gym, travel, sports) looks like work."
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"I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'"
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"If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too."
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"The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play."
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"I'm not a guy who counts cards. I'm a guy that plays with feeling. Because I feel that if something is going to come up, it comes up; if it doesn't, it doesn't. And a lot of people get pissed at me because that's the way I play but that's the way I learned to play - with my feelings."
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"The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can't be expected to be taken that seriously."
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"I didn't play with other children."
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"Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now so vast we can't communicate them anymore and if we tried it would take a million years and a billion books - Too late, too late, the history of everything we've seen together and separately has become a library in itself - The shelves pile higher - They're full of misty documents or documents of the Mist-."
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"I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that."
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"But for me, you also have to be conscious of what is going to play. And that includes playing with. Sometimes it's just a vibe. It's what's going to make this scene work. And sometimes there may be something that restricts you that has to do with something that maybe is historically accurate. And then you have to weigh that decision and give up something for a scene to work."
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"Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part."
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"And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame"
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"No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher"
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"A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano."
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"I can hardly decide what plays I should be in."
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"I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth."
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"The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play."
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"Learn to swim. It is a sport all the peasants can play."
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"Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce."
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"My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our dad is a musician. Music was always a part of our lives."
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