"You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle."
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"If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her."
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"The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but translate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions. Perhaps he cannot; certainly he does not, or does so very seldom."
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"When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille."
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"It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales. I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton ... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will."
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"When I was young, I didn't play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I've reached. Think what they might do over time."
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"The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw."
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"Rather than double-down on the top-down economics that let a fortunate few play by their own rules, let’s embrace an economic patriotism that says we rise or fall together, as one nation, and as one people."
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"He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone."
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"I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible"
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"I play to all people, and I play to people not governments, and I believe strongly that all people are peaceful and would want peace."
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"And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly."
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"When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans’ fears about the future."
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"Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it."
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"I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life."
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"Fondle the woman in your life once for every thousand times you play with your private parts. That should be just about right."
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"There's very little to be said for learning a piece note by note, reading the rhythmic markings, practising the fingerings and following your instructor's suggestions, if you haven't any idea how the music will eventually sound and feel. If you learn a piece mechanically, you may have to 'unlearn' it before you can play it with expression and feeling."
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"That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm."
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"Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress."
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"The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today."
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