"I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water."
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"There's always a chance. Somebody has got to want me, and if they don't want me, then what? I want to play. I want to do what I want to do."
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"I do listen to a lot of music. Actually, I very often ask directors if they can offer up a play list. They very often have one anyway that they're listening to."
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"I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously."
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"It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play."
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"We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that."
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"On certain plays and situations I feel like I have the advantage. But sometimes I just have to not think about the size of the guy in front of me."
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"You just can't let the outside world affect your game.You can't hold anything back. You can't play a different game."
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"You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but endeavour to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression that may be used with truth; such as, you understand the game better than I, but you are a little inattentive, or, you play too fast; or, you had the best of the game, but something happened to divert your thoughts, and that turned it in my favour."
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"We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking."
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"Every performer should learn a little bit of everything. Most performers today only play the guitar."
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"I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play."
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"I love drama. I love to play an arc."
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"Delight comes only when our soul dances and plays with another."
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"When your actions are motivated by love, you expend least effort and your energy multiplies, allowing you to create anything you want, with a spirit of play and joy. When you seek power and control over others, you waste energy chasing the illusion of happiness."
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"Children offer the finest expressions of openness and flexibility. They play and laugh freely, and find wonder in the smallest things."
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"If I'm fortunate enough to play in the NFL, anywhere for anybody would be great. But if I had to pick, it would be the hometown [Atlanta] Falcons because I used to work for them."
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"I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it."
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"Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and niggas wanna play chess now"
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"I hope somebody makes a movie about Obama's life soon because I could play him. That's the goal. I watch all the addresses. Any time I see him on TV, I don't change the channel. I definitely pay attention and listen to the inflections of his voice. If you ask anyone who knows me, I'm pretty good at impressions."
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