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• I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.

  Max Irons

  Running, Mean, Kids

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• I was always the kid at the side of the playground, looking at the other kids. I didn't know how to get into the group. I was quiet and bookish, a bit of a geek. I was into orienteering when my friends were out clubbing.

  Richard Coyle

  Kids, Sides, Groups

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• We are walking down the street holding hands. There is a playground at the end of the block, and I run to the swings and I climb on and Henry takes the one next to me facing the opposite direction. And we swing higher and higher passing each other, sometimes in synch and sometimes streaming past each other so fast that it seems we are going to collide. And we laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost or dead or far away. Right now we are here and nothing can mar our perfection or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Running, Block, Past

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• From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance.

  Andrea Hirata

  Children, Distance, Writing

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• How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.

  Jennifer Michael Hecht

  Grass, Prozac, Pops

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• The problem when someone feels burned out, bored, unchallenged, or stifled by their work is not the job itself but rather the environment and playground rules given to them to do the job at hand.

  Tony Hsieh

  Motivational, Jobs, Hands

  Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• [in response to a jealous comment made by Amber] PJ's mouth snarls open. "If you aren't going to play nice, my thorny little bush, I think you should return to the dirty playground that you crawled from.

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Nice, Dirty, Jealous

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• The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.

  Tim Winton

  Spiritual, Nature, Sea

  Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• I haven't played Doctor Who since I was 9 on the playground.

  Peter Capaldi

  Doctors, Havens, Doctor Who

  "'Doctor Who' Season 8 12th Doctor Spoilers: The New Doctor is 'Older, Fiercer, Madder'" by Clare Morris, www.christianpost.com. January 14, 2016.

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• That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Light, Google, Taught

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• Hong Kong is a nice playground for my street pieces as the architecture is very different from my home city. It's also a great opportunity to take place in a dynamic city of the global art scene.

  Invader

  Art, Nice, Home

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• But hey, what's life without a little adversity?" That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playground swings for the rest of us.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Teacher, Mean, Adversity

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• It's that moon again, slung so fat and low in the tropical night, calling out across a curdled sky and into the quivering ears of that dear old voice in the shadows, the Dark Passenger, nestled snug in the backseat of the Dodge K-car of Dexter's hypothetical soul. That rascal moon, that loudmouthed leering Lucifer, calling down across the empty sky to the dark hearts of the night monsters below, calling them away to their joyful playgrounds.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Heart, Dark, Moon

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.1, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Can't we all just play nicely and leave the playground the way we found it, clean and safe?

  Amber Valletta

  Play, Way, Safe

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• You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Team, Watches

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• I decided to become a teacher because I thought it would be a great career where I could wear different hats. You're an academic one moment, and you're a psychologist the next moment, an athlete the next moment... when you are out on the playground or coaching...so it enables you to play different roles.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Teacher, Athlete, Play

  Source: www.afb.org

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• New York's a big playground. I have a bike, and I'm really into just being outside. Especially in the summertime.

  Chace Crawford

  New York, Summertime, Just Being

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2009.

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• I try to keep it positive and play it cool, shoot up the playground and tell the kids to stay in school.

  Eminem

  School, Kids, Play

  Song: I'm Shady, Album: The Slim Shady LP

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• I'll remember the view out this window [from Oval Cabinet], because this is where we had our - the playground that we put in when Malia and Sasha came in. Being able every once in awhile to look out the window and see your daughters during the summer, swinging on that swing set, that made the presidency a little bit sweeter.

  Barack Obama

  Summer, Daughter, Views

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

  Todd Gitlin

  Strong, America, May

  "A Gathering Swarm" by Todd Gitlin, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2005.

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• The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Out on a Limb". Details Magazine, October 1996.

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• I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.

  Patrick Ewing

  Inspirational, Basketball, Games

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• The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Children, Law

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• The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Practice, Ideas

  "This World: Playground or Battleground?". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1989.

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• The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers-by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work-is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility.

  Aleister Crowley

  Names, Holy Grail, Quests

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

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