"For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life."
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"You're never too old to play. You're only too old for low-rise jeans."
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"When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model"
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"You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life."
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"Something like the alleyway scene, where it's like a mini one-act play and you run the whole 18 pages of it, it's so much easier to get lost in it. That's why actors love doing theater so much, I guarantee you. It's refreshing to be able to do something where you don't have to be stopped every two seconds, and you can just play it out and it's done."
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"Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made."
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"If you're having trouble finding someone to play with, why don't you just go play with yourself."
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"I've realised over the years I play my best when I have time to prepare for each tournament as best as possible."
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"I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'"
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"In our play we reveal what kind of people we are."
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"The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play."
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"To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music."
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"Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get huge applause; and if they play a Quodlibet, or jumble of opera, song and dance, the hearers are so overjoyed that they don't know what to do with themselves. It shows the corrupt taste of the Viennese public."
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"At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you."
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"I feel like I'm waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play."
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"Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving"
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"To play the guitar well is easy, to play the guitar poorly is difficult."
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"Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit."
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"The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever."
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"The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse."
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