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You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.
Lou Reed
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I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
Keanu Reeves
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I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.
Johnny Cash
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My heroes were always soccer players.
Ronaldinho
Always
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Soccer
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Ashley Cole is a fantastic defender. I have seen him keep the best players in the world quiet.
Ronaldinho
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Defender
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I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.
Ronaldinho
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It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
Jackson Browne
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
Jackson Browne
About
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
Jackson Browne
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
Jackson Browne
Banjo
Between
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Father
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I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.
Jackson Browne
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Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.
Jackson Browne
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Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.
Jackson Browne
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So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.
Jackson Browne
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
Jackson Browne
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
Jackson Browne
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.
Jackson Browne
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Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
Jackson Browne
Banjo
English
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
Jackson Browne
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I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.
Robbie Williams
Album
Good
GoodMusic
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You know when you're a kid and you get to pick a movie every Friday? I watched everything. There's no particular genre that was appealing. I just loved the idea that you could dress up and play.
Ruth Negga
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The good thing about auditioning is that you get to test yourself and see if you can play this character - you're also auditioning yourself.
Ruth Negga
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I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.
Jacques Derrida
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I think a lot of actors feel like outsiders or miscreants. This profession provides an opportunity to play out all the different parts of ourselves.
Ruth Negga
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Robertson Davies
Forever
Gallery
Never
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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
Henry Kissinger
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Destiny
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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.
James Brown
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The important thing is that those 20 boys know in 20 years, they didn’t leave anything on the table. They played their hearts out. That’s the important thing.
Herb Brooks
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Win, lose, or tie, you’re gonna play like champions!
Herb Brooks
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Lose
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I’m not looking for the best players. I’m looking for the right ones.
Herb Brooks
Looking for
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You were born to be a player. you were meant to be here. this moment is yours.
Herb Brooks
You were
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Rosa Luxemburg
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If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.
Ronaldinho
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The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can't see a way through.
Ronaldinho
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I remember seeing Eric Cantona play for Manchester United. The way he used to control games was special to watch.
Ronaldinho
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When I was 7, I started playing with a club. The only grass on the field was in the corner. There was no grass in the middle! It was just sand.
Ronaldinho
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My only concern is playing. Everything else, my family looks after. In our house, everyone has a job, and my job in our house is to play football.
Ronaldinho
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Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.
James Cameron
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Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.
James Cameron
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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
James Dean
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Anyone
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Now stop your dancing; you wouldn't come out and dance when I played to you.
Herodotus
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Then come at once and pause for breath In chasing wealth. Remembering death And death's dark fires, mix, while you may, Method and madness, work and play. Folly is sweet, well-timed.
Horace
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Breath
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If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.
James Watson
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Dream
Dream It
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As a young player, I always thought I was doing everything I could. But the longer you play, the more you learn, and the better you're prepared for what this game throws at you
Ali Nuhu
Young player
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A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.
James Franco
Actor
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Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.
James Franco
Acting
Always
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Russell Crowe
Chess
Know
Life
MyLife
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I'd like to play passionate women, but no one will let me.
Russell Crowe
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Me
No-One
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If you put 20 cents in me and ask me to talk about South Sydney, I'll play all night.
Russell Crowe
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