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"I don't know about Cricket but still I watch Cricket to see Sachin play..Not because I love his play, its because I want to know the reason why my country's production goes down by 5 percent when he is in batting"
"You can't get someone to like something they aren't feeling. After you press play, there isn't anything you can do."
"Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot."
"As I have said so many times, God doesn't play dice with the world."
"When I first met Benny Goodman he wouldn't talk about anything but clarinets, mouthpieces, reeds, etc. When I tried to change the subject, he said 'But that's what we have in common. We both play clarinet.' I said, 'No, Benny, that's where we're different. You play clarinet, I play music.'"
"I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along."
"To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?"
"Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness."
"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?"
"There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations."
"Dr. Thomas Fuller wrote: "With foxes, we must play the fox"."
"You have a divine right to choose whom you will play with and under what circumstances. By eliminating any energy drag, the positive good things in your life will resonate faster and faster."
"Life is a game, kid! It all depends on how you play!"
"Jordan seeks to play only one role, that of a model state. It is our aim to set an example for our Arab brethren, not one that they need follow but one that will inspire them to seek a higher, happier destiny within their own borders."
"I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world."
"If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad."
"I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me"
"I feel like I just returned a 100-yard kickoff in the last two minutes of the Super Bowl to win it all, only to have my run called back by a flag on the play."
"History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead."
"A play visibly represents pure existing."
