"Football is part of I, When I play the world wakes up around me"
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"I would like to play every day. Whether or not that happens, we'll see."
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"We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum."
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"How can you rank BYU No. 1? Who'd they play - Bo Diddley Tech?"
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"But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites."
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"Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative."
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"Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study."
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"I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like."
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"I understand how much everyone wanted to see a British winner at Wimbledon and I hope everyone enjoyed it. I worked so hard in that last game. It's the hardest few points I've had to play in my life. I don't know how I came through the final three points... that last game ... my head was kind of everywhere. That last game will be the toughest game I'll play in my career, ever."
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"Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not there."
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"For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dædalus or the tripods of Hephæstus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves."
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"If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents."
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"Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music."
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"The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create and to put his vision of the play or his translation or interpretation of the material on the stage."
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"The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes."
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"If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long."
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"Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is."
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"You play a part in every aspect of your life going the way you want or not going the way that you want. It has very little to do with other people."
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"Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in."
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"'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous."
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