Playing Around Quotes - Page 2

• You look at William Powell in 'My Man Godfrey' and he's a butler in that and he's very dapper. He's a very refined gentleman. I liked playing around with that, with the good posture and a style, a panache, and a way of moving about the room.

  Evan Peters

  Moving, Men, Style

  Source: collider.com

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• Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.

  Jackie Evancho

  Talking, Waiting, Normal

  "Jackie Evancho: Chasing Her Dreams". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Michele Norris, www.npr.org. May 23, 2011.

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• Actually, New York is great for playing around. I made a lot of studies for New York-a big vacuum cleaner lying on the Battery in Manhattan.

  Claes Oldenburg

  New York, Lying, Vacuums

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's not a lot of direct back story but you do get to see them playing around each other a lot.

  Ray Stevenson

  Stories, Direct

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it's just as viable a way of telling a story as anything else but for right now we like playing around with the new ways to do 3-D because I think it's only going to get better. I think that eventually we'll come home, we'll sit in our living room and there will be a little hologram that'll pop up and you'll watch these 3-D movies but you'll be able to walk around it.

  Todd Farmer

  Home, Thinking, Get Better

  Source: collider.com

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• Instead of hitting the treadmill six days a week, I try to spend as much time with my daughter and fit in a bit of cardio during the week. Although, running and playing around with my three-year-old keeps me pretty active as it is.

  Christina Applegate

  Running, Daughter, Years

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• One day I was in the studio with my cousin. My dad was on tour at the time, so just for fun I recorded some stuff with my cousin. We were just playing around. After my dad got back, one day he played what we recorded. He heard my part and was like, "Who is that?" My cousin was like, "Uh, that's your son!" So he was like, "That's hot. You wanna make a record?"

  Lil Romeo

  Cousin, Dad, Fun

  Source: ledgernote.com

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• I have always been writing but when I started rapping I was just playing around. My friends told me I needed a rap name like Breezy or G-Eazy so I went with Dreezy.

  Dreezy

  Rap, Writing, Names

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• We can't be playing around with these issues [Zika disease], because this can become very serious very quickly, as we have seen in Brazil and other countries. The funds are going to be used at the state level, but it is important for the federal government to cooperate in the federal government's role.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Government, Issues

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• He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.

  Steve Earle

  Teacher, Real, Hero

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• I don't believe in playing around much with suit cuts. I like a fairly classic shape that gives a man strong shoulders, a fitted waist, and long legs. Classic simplicity always works.

  Tom Ford

  Strong, Believe, Cutting

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• When I got to be about 16,17 I got into a beauty pageant and I was allowed to start playing around with makeup.

  Halle Berry

  Makeup, Pageant, Beauty Pageant

  "Halle Berry's Insights Into Rocking Short Hair, Her Favorite Lip Product and More Beauty Secrets". Interview with Beth Shapouri, www.glamour.com. February 11, 2015.

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• I do think, in the future, headlamps are probably going to be smaller, slimmer. I also think that a lot of designers will start playing around with the daylight running lights. That gives a lot of character to the vehicles in different ways, so I think designers are going to play around with that to try and give each brand a certain DNA so you can almost recognize what car it is when you look at the headlamps.

  Henrik Fisker

  Running, Character, Thinking

  "Interview: Henrik Fisker talks new companies, the future of car design and ... minivans". Interview with C.C. Weiss, newatlas.com. December 24, 2016.

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• How can you go wrong with playing around on a superhero show? Just the way that they do things and watching them do their thing was amazing to me. Also, superheroes are awesome!

  Bex Taylor-Klaus

  Superhero, Way, Shows

  Source: collider.com

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• I started playing around with local rock band swith the alto. And then, in a nutshell, somebody fell ill one night, the lead singer of one of the bands, and they knew I could sing, so they asked me if I would stand in. And I quite enjoyed it, actually, I must say, at 14. It was a real trip to have girls wave at you and smile and everything just because you opened your mouth and sang.

  David Bowie

  Girl, Real, Night

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Writing, World, Fantasy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's normally in the morning, just playing around. And I'm not saying everything I make is great, but that's what I do. I can't even remember how I wrote stuff.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Morning, Stuff, Remember

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I believe that the artist's feelings are in some way generative. And I suspect that much of the artist's most productive emotion - not all of it but much of it - is felt in the course of playing around with form.

  Carter Ratcliff

  Believe, Artist, Play

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• I don't love CDs more than anything else, but I was just playing around with the idea that they could be something you're momentarily keeping hold of as everything is passing by.

  Alexis Taylor

  Passing By, Cds, Ideas

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

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• I always enjoyed playing around Washington, because we always have a good crowd. I've never had a bad crowd in this vicinity from here [Alexandria], up to Washington and on to right around Baltimore. They've been some good fans.

  Ralph Stanley

  Fans, Crowds, Alexandria

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Grind

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• Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiring, Business, Airplane

  Comment to reporters during the IBM PC launch, 1981.

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• I need to admit up front that I don't know how to have a fling. I'm not good at playing around and then saying good-bye. I'm throwing myself at your feet because I'm hoping for a shot at forever." Henry Jenkins/Mr. Nobley

  Shannon Hale

  Bye, Feet, Forever

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• It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if the facts are right, then the proofs are a matter of playing around with the algebra correctly.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Progress, Goes On

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• I just started playing around different clubs, and I got a good reputation around New York City of having good timing, a good right foot, and I was "funky", "soulful", and all that stuff. Then I ran into this group, the Pigeons.

  Carmine Appice

  New York, Cities, Feet

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