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"I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock, jazz. I was looking for more co-op type things than what I had been doing, which had been completely my own trip."
"A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good."
"When you step out on the court, I don't think anybody thinks about age. Because if you're out on this tour it means you deserve to be here. You've got the skill. It must mean you know how to play."
"I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease."
"Many times during auditions, I was told that I couldn't carry a note with a bucket, and that I sure couldn't play the piano."
"If you can play the blues, you can do anything."
"Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada."
"I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays."
"I wish I could play like Roger Federer."
"It's a lot of bling to play with. You got to have the bling."
"There's so much to learn! And just when we think, "I've got it. I really understand what's going on," we're shown a whole new stage set on which to play."
"A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable."
"If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole schmageggy business of an actor or an actress worthwhile, because you suddenly know that they are human beings like you, who are receiving something from you."
"For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen."
"First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money."
"In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life."
"Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play."
"I've always just shown up and tried to figure out what's for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night."
"Our breath plays a very important role in our life. The breath is the connecting link between the inner world of the mind and the outer world of the body and environment."
"Those who have advanced rise to the mind which is in the head, - they have the play of their mental movements in the head itself. But all these are inside the body; man is, as it were, shut up in a box, his entire consciousness is confined within the organism. This imprisonment has to be undone."
