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"The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see."
"If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be."
"Every Olympics is something special. If you're fortunate enough to play for your country - there's just so much energy. It's truly amazing."
"What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it."
"Oh fine. I'll play nice with the pretty people."
"Screw this. He’d blown his shot at nice-and-easy, which only left quick-and-brutal—my favorite way to play."
"So don't. Come hang out with me at work. We can play naughty dress up with the hospital gowns and rearrange the supply closets."
"Alec rolled beautiful brown eyes. "No fair playing the death card." "No fair having it to play."
"I can play the leading man. I can play the action hero, maybe in just a different way. I look at it as, you know, if you set your mind to it, you can do it."
"I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page."
"Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice."
"I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project."
"I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love."
"My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays."
"I play Dwight. That is just much me being of service and worshiping as if I'm on my knees in some temple somewhere or bowing my head in prayer to God in some way. It's really all just the same thing."
"On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die."
"I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can't imagine going through that. If you know that's going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I'd rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?"
"Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind."
"There are two ways love can go. You can be good to each other or you could not play fair."
"I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play."
