Play Quotes - Page 35

• I've been calling plays in the huddle since I was seven.

  Philip Rivers

  Nfl, Calling, Seven

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• Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.

  Pete Carroll

  Football, Player, Thinking

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• I'm not a young jitterbug anymore. When I was a young jitterbug, I never won. I didn't start winning until I got older. The older I get, the wiser I get. You just have to play it smart.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Smart, Winning

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• These Seattle Seahawks wide receivers have been called pedestrian, they've been called no-namers, but they always come up with the big play.

  Nate Burleson

  Nfl, Super Bowl, Bigs

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• I don't think anybody in the game over the last several years has made more plays than Richard Sherman.

  Deion Sanders

  Thinking, Years, Games

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• We play by the rules, we play hard and we prepare hard. The work ethic of our team and preparation is like no other in my opinion and we try to make our fans in America proud.

  Robert Kraft

  Team, Play Hard, Nfl

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• We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Passion, Self, Knowing

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• If you get caught at some crucial point and somebody tells you that your doctrine doesn't make sense - you're ready for him. You tell him there's something above sense. That here he must not try to think, he must feel. He must believe. Suspend reason and you can play it deuces wild.

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Thinking, Religion

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.608, Penguin

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• Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play.

  Frederick Sommer

  Photography, Chance, Photographer

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• I've watched other people singing, I've become a much better singer. I've become a singer that plays the piano instead of a piano player that sings.

  Elton John

  Player, Piano, People

  "A Q&A With Elton John". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. November 16, 2004.

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• I loved doing school musicals [as a kid], I even started at an early age to write little plays for the school to perform. I was not just keen on that, it was during that time, during the school period then from an early age, that I began to dream about acting.

  George Ogilvie

  Dream, Writing, School

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• That's not going to happen, because I don't want it to happen. I don't want a movie about me until I'm very, very old - when I'm very, very old, everybody that wants to play me will be middle-aged.

  Stevie Nicks

  Want, Middle, Happens

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• I don't enjoy "Dust in the Wind"as much. But I do enjoy "Song for America," "Carry on, Wayward Son," and many songs- Kansas is really a drummer's dream to play in. And I like 'em all.

  Phil Ehart

  Dream, Song, Dust

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• I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.

  Neil Simon

  Writing, Mind, Originals

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

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• I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other.

  Neil Simon

  New York, Home, Character

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• You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two or three pages at a time, then I transfer to the typewriter and rewrite while I type.

  Neil Simon

  Notebook, Writing, Two

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

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• You gotta be the right size, height, speed - all those are a big factor in what position you play. If you love the game, play the position you love. Some positions get paid more, but at the end of the day you gotta play the game you love.

  LeSean McCoy

  Games, The End Of The Day, Height

  "Interview: LeSean McCoy Talks Chip Kelly, Kobe Bryant, & Nick Foles' Rap Knowledge". Interview with Maurice Peebles, www.complex.com. September 5, 2014.

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• I think it's easier to play when you do have a balanced home. I think if I did have alcoholism in my personal life, or my mother, or somebody close to me, it might have been much more uncomfortable to get in there.

  Angelina Jolie

  Mother, Home, Thinking

  "Angelina Jolie Gets Conservative in The Good Shepherd". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. December 18, 2006.

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• I wanted to be an actor, an astrologer, an astronaut; a lot of different things were going through my mind. But I also wanted to play guitar. I mentioned to my parents that I wanted an electric guitar for Christmas. They got me one! I sat there all Christmas morning making a lot of loud horrible noise.

  Joan Jett

  Morning, Guitar, Parent

  "Joan Jett Opens Up About Her Biggest Transformation Yet And Looks Back On What Could've Been". Interview with Amy Rose Spiegel, www.buzzfeed.com. September 10, 2013.

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• In television, and especially in a situation comedy, you kind of play yourself, or at least the essence of yourself.

  Shelley Long

  Essence, Television, Comedy

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I was 23, and I was in L.A. while on hiatus [as an understudy] from Biloxi Blues on Broadway. The guy that I'd been studying with had been fired for horsing around on stage with Matthew Broderick, and they were really anxious to get me back into the play. So I was in a great situation, and at the time, I definitely wasn't thinking about television

  David Lee

  Thinking, Guy, Television

  Source: www.gq.com

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• When I play videogames I'm trying to go deep every pitch. I'm definitely not going to try to do that in real life. In the (video)game I'm trying to leave the yard.

  Dustin Pedroia

  Real, Games, Trying

  Source: www.bayareasportsguy.com

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• Every season is so much different and you go through your ups and downs, you figure your team out, you get to play against great teams. Some of the best competition there's been since I've been in the league. Just every night, night in and night out we get to play against the top guys, the top teams. It's a lot of fun.

  Blake Griffin

  Fun, Team, Night

  Source: www.slamonlineph.com

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• As a performer, I don't like to play the same thing over and over. I like to play it and let it go and move on. That's also why television hasn't really been something that I've done.

  Hilary Swank

  Moving, Let It Go, Done

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The idea of playing a character for even two years, to me feels claustrophobic - only because I want to play a lot of different people.

  Hilary Swank

  Character, Years, Ideas

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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