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It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That's what I did.

Plays Bad More Good
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Each day, you get an ounce more confidence. When we're playing like we are, there's no reason not to.

Reason Playing Ounce Each
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I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

Also Book Considered Hip-Hop
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The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them

Among DoTheRightThing Fans How
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Bound Disregard Fair Fair Play
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I played without fear. I've done that since I first kicked a ball in my back garden as a five-year-old, whether it's been my first game, my 100th game, or my 500th game.

Game First Done Garden
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I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we're having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there's a foul, and that's a chance to score a goal.

Goal Chance Foul Win
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The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character.

Adapt People Nervous Teams
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Any strengthening of the squad, in a League and Champions League which demands so much, is a good thing because you need many top quality players.

Quality Good Players Top
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When the game is finished, it's completely finished. I'm with my kids. Sometimes people say to me, 'Oh, did you see the game?' and I say, 'No, I didn't see the game'. I watch if my friends are playing or my brothers. But not always.

Game Kids Friends Watch
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Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

Battle Battles Been Lost
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It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

Hard For Anyone That
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I love to set up my teammates. I am not here to be a star, to show off. I am here to play for the others, but if I have to try and clinch a game, then I will.

Game Here Love Off
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Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

Lose Never Hoot Times
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The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.

Dramatic Element Great Great Part
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

Able Accomplish Away Christianity
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Afraid Audience Comedian God
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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

Build Dance Draw Else
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Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

Any Elements Every God
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Fate does not play jokes.

Fate Play Jokes
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Do you know why I love God? Because Heaven is real. And one day, when we get to Heaven, we are going to have arms and legs. And we are going to run, and we are going play, and we are going to race.

Arms Because Day Do You Know
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Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

Season Series Close Movies
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You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.

Played Development Result
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What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

Ask Being Children Dozen
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I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.
Am Buy Everything Good
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'

Bad BadReview Behind Could
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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

Actor Brando Done Enough
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I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

Acting ActingClasses Actress Classes
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I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

Faith Heart Matters External
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If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

Been Ended House Piano
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I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Accept Anything Best Capable
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I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

Athletes Football Football Player Kind
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All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

Agent Buy Damage Dependent
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I grew up playing basketball and eating hot dogs on the corner.

Basketball Corner Dogs Eating
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When I hear the songs 'Dangerous' or 'End of My World', I go, 'Wow, I didn't even know I could go that low!' And when I played them for my family, they said, 'That doesn't even sound like you.'

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Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

Another Another Way Culture Enjoy
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The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of pretense and of cheapness.

Natural Sense Love Fair
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The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point

Back Because Find Get
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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.

Billy BillyJoel Both Great
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My idea is to play with the people who you know want to get it right. Then it's fun and easy to record, and you can get down to details, like taking out cymbals so the verse doesn't dwarf the chorus, something like that

Chorus Details Down Dwarf
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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.

Box Different Everybody Get
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

Call City Come Cop
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I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.

Christmas Get How I Remember
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Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.

Always Arenas Cut Done
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Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.

Able Always Am Believed
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My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.

Artist Ancing Dream Favorite
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When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

Apology Body Care Characters
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Feel Quit Run Should
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Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Bad Ballplayer Bit Even
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