Play Quotes - Page 35

• It's true that writing can give new forms to concepts that existed previously with far less clarity, but in terms of the other half of a story's story - the way a story is received and interpreted and used - the audience plays a part in that too.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Writing, Giving, Way

  "Something Just Beyond Words". Interview with Molly McArdle, logger.believermag.com. April 25, 2014.

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• When I was younger I was much more polemical and didactic, much less trusting. Inherently my own vision of the world would weave its way through the characters. Also, my concerns are changing. What happens is you write a few plays and get boxed into some idea of what your concerns are and what you're supposed to be writing about.

  Eve Ensler

  Writing, Character, Ideas

  "Avocados and Vaginas". Interview with Joe Saxon, www.thestateofthearts.co.uk. May 16, 2015.

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• When you play the bars, you pay your dues. It does matter that you know those things [songs]. And the great thing for me, too, is that I draw on that stuff as influences. It's also stuff that you put in the tank that you pull from to make records.

  Eric Church

  Song, Tanks, Doe

  "Who the hell is Eric Church?". Interview with Bill DeYoung, www.connectsavannah.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three rock bands, and I wrote and staged and acted in plays for kids in my neighborhood. So I was kind of all over the place in my interests and far-flung in terms of where my creativity wanted to end up.

  Dennis Cooper

  Kids, Writing, Creativity

  "Go Forth (Vol. 19)". Interview with Brandon Hobson and Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. December 11, 2013.

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• Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.

  Aaron Belz

  Stars, Writing, Feelings

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• There's nothing that compares to being in a band with your best friends. We're so comfortable together, we understand each other. It feels, like, normal. Whereas solo period felt like I was trying to be something, and play a role, and pretend.

  Gwen Stefani

  Together, Trying, Normal

  Source: perezhilton.com

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• the one thing I've observed over the years is the best way to get an actor to not want to play a certain role is to offer it to them. That makes them say, "Well, maybe it's not that good. These guys don't want me to do this..."

  Wes Anderson

  Years, Guy, Want

  "Interview: Wes Anderson - 'Grand Budapest Hotel' Writer & Director". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. March 6, 2014.

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• We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play

  Ringo Starr

  Doors, Band, Policy

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to.

  Ringo Starr

  Different, Occupation, Able

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• I know when I feel good when I play. There's a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it's still playing live. For me, it's what expands my soul.

  Ringo Starr

  Feel Good, Soul, Musician

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• I honestly haven't thought much about what to play and where, perhaps i should...it seems like most musicians are better at that than I am.

  Moby

  Musician, Should, Honestly

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 5, 2014.

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• When I dj at big venues I try to play tracks that I would want to hear if I were e'd up in a field with 50,000 other people.

  Moby

  People, Track, Trying

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 5, 2014.

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• I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.

  Ringo Starr

  Rooms, Drummer, Behinds

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• Every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to. Even as a Beatle, they'd say, 'Oh, double-track that.' I don't know how you do that, because when I'm in a fill I'm sort of this blackout, just this pure me coming out and I can't pure me the same, twice. So, that's that.

  Ringo Starr

  Track, Different, Able

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• I've always been playing with other people, and that's how I learned. I got a kit of drums I couldn't play, but I also knew a guitarist and a friend of mine played bass and could teach us bass, and we just played. And I learned.

  Ringo Starr

  People, Bass, Teach

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.

  Ringo Starr

  Blessed, Musician, Sticks

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• I'm told I was acting in school plays when I was a tiny little boy at the age of three, so they must have seen something then. And even when I was practicing piano eight hours a day, I was still doing school plays.

  Christian McKay

  School, Boys, Eight

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• I think the presidency is much too serious a thing to just play politics with.

  Chris Christie

  Thinking, Serious, Presidency

  "Exclusive: Chris Christie explains why he is running for president on 'Hannity'". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. July 1, 2015.

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• Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough. And I'm trying to earn my spot on the team. I'm trying to earn a starting spot. I'm trying to become a complete midfielder who attacks, who defends. So that's the mindset.

  Carli Lloyd

  Team, Dirty, People

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Every time I step in between those lines, I'm in the zone. If you get between me and the ball, you might get smashed a couple times. Things happen, plays happen.

  Carli Lloyd

  Couple, Balls, Lines

  "This Pre-World Cup Interview with Carli Lloyd Shows Just How Awesomely Intense She Is". Interview with George Quraishi, www.slate.com. July 8, 2015.

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• I kind of play like a guy. I don't hold grudges. I don't get dramatic with things. If somebody slide tackles me in training and we leave the field, I'm still talking to them. I think that there's very few of us out there that can just take confrontation, and if you've got an issue with something, you can go to that person and say it.

  Carli Lloyd

  Thinking, Talking, Issues

  "This Pre-World Cup Interview with Carli Lloyd Shows Just How Awesomely Intense She Is". Interview with George Quraishi, www.slate.com. July 8, 2015.

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• There's no reason that young girls shouldn't feel like they can't smash people on the field. Nothing dirty. You want to keep it clean. You just want to play hard. Get your jersey dirty, shorts dirty, and just have fun out there.

  Carli Lloyd

  Girl, Fun, Dirty

  "This Pre-World Cup Interview with Carli Lloyd Shows Just How Awesomely Intense She Is". Interview with George Quraishi, www.slate.com. July 8, 2015.

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• There is no way I would play guitar like a tour de force like I did in Led Zeppelin. John Bonham, phenomenal drummer, young man with his technique, but do you think he would ever have the opportunity to play like that in another band? Of course he hadn't.

  Jimmy Page

  Opportunity, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I can't judge the characters I play, because it's for the audience to do. What I can try to do is to understand and embody what were they going through? How did they make the decisions they made? That to me is a more interesting way to approach something, rather than saying this person is a villain and that person is this and - because it's not very interesting to play that anyway.

  Kevin Spacey

  Character, Interesting, Judging

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I was raised in a typical Puritan Midwestern Methodist home and there was a lot of hurt and hypocrisy in those times. And I think that whatever part Playboy played and that I managed to play in terms of the sexual revolution came out of what I saw in the negative part of that life and tried to change things in some positive way so that people could choose alternate personal ways of living their lives.

  Hugh Hefner

  Hurt, Home, Thinking

  "Hugh Hefner Reflects on Turning 80". "The Big Story" with John Gibson, www.foxnews.com. April 6, 2006.

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