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Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

We've all listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, haven't we? We all know how not to play a psychiatrist.

Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.

If you look at my body of work, my characters drastically vary, and so I typically don't play the same role. It makes me feel reborn with each role.

It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.

As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.

The way you play, you need to talk about winning. Don't talk about keeping your card - talk about winning.

I play patterns. I'll make up a pattern and just play it.

Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different.

I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.

The thought of bringing a cake into a dance music show is a bizarre one. The idea of rafting on top of people is just as bizarre as well. And I think whenever something bizarre comes into play, it immediately becomes an easy target. And for those reasons, I know that I have been the target of criticism.

I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.

I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.

I started here in Australia, playing a lot of roles but never the lead guy in shows here. I always tended to play the rougher guy, the criminal who gets caught or shot by the cops. Or the boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks.

And when I play they know I exist, and it leaves a space when I go.

But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn.

Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.

I entertain for a living and I role-play for a living, and I can't help but continue to do it.

Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.

I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

I'd like to do voiceovers my whole life. I get to kind of create a character and go in and play.

My brother plays guitar and base and writes. His name is Chase Ryan.

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

I enjoy Augusta. I enjoy its challenges. There's no other golf course like this anywhere. Its greens and its challenges on and around the greens are just super, super tough. So the greens are fun to play in sort of a morbid way

I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that.

Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.

Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.

I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.

But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.

I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit.

I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.

I love bad boys. They're the most fun to play.

I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters.

I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

Money's never an issue. I can go and work for a small studio theatre somewhere if it's a play I really care about, or do TV or a big commercial West End show.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.

I just come do what I've got to do, play my game. And I don't worry if anybody likes it.

I live and die for the Buckeyes. I also love to play racquetball.

Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock 'n' roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.

Put every light you have on a dimmer. Because after a certain age, we can play with the lighting and set it on how you look best on it. Its cheaper than plastic surgery.

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.

I have the insecurities of any actress, I suppose of any woman. Even the most beautiful ones feel unhappy. Look at Bardot: she was suicidal. But I like to play with the camera. I like to ham it up.

The weather plays a very big role. I have run very few races in the raining and the cold.

It's like a cast of actors; you're all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it's like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise.

You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It's kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen.

It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that people start believing because of all of the retouching. You can delve into that fantasy world and play with it, but when you walk away, that's not you.

I will say I love competing, and I was in a great era of playing with young Phil Mickelson and older Greg Norman and Nick Price. I don't know if YA Title could throw the ball these days, but you can play golf for a long, long time.

I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.

He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.

So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?

I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting.

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there’s a current and just stare into the water. I don’t fish, I don’t hunt, I don’t scuba, I don’t spear, don’t boat, don’t play basketball or football – I excel at staring into space. I’m really good at that.

When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta be creative, you gotta let your talent take over.

Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer.

I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.

In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.

But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.

In my sophomore year, a kid told me that the secret to getting women is to play really, really hard to get. I followed his advice, and I didn't have so much as a date that year.

I used to play in the subway. If everyone tossed in a quarter, at the end of the day it would add up. It shows you aren't invisible. And it's better than being ignored, or kicked in the head, or worse.

I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.

God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.