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"Oh, and Scott, get Mark to play me. He's the most talented one anyway."
Mark McKinney
"Oh, and Scott, get Mark to play me. He's the most talented one anyway."
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"Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything."
Ornette Coleman
"Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything."
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"We tune down a full step when we play but I never miss a note. I've learned how to keep my voice."
Kip Winger
"We tune down a full step when we play but I never miss a note. I've learned how to keep my voice."
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"The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy."
Connie Sellecca
"The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy."
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"I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me."
Edward G. Robinson
"I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me."
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"I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly."
Kyra Sedgwick
"I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly."
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"I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book me."
Jules Shear
"I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book me."
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"It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move."
Tony Curtis
"It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move."
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"I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days."
Douglas Wood
"I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days."
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"I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts."
Steve Swallow
"I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts."
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"If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over."
Van Morrison
"If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over."
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"My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth."
Barbara Stanwyck
"My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth."
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"What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion."
Edward Bond
"What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion."
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"In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues."
Alexis Korner
"In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues."
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"Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni."
Tony Randall
"Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni."
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"I play a detective, very close to myself actually."
Jon Voight
"I play a detective, very close to myself actually."
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"I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it."
Kathy Valentine
"I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it."
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"I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else."
Sam J. Jones
"I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else."
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"They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze."
Michael Stipe
"They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze."
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"I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience."
Lorraine Bracco
"I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience."
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"To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible."
Charlie Watts
"To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible."
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"He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it."
Tom Kenny
"He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it."
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"When I play ball, I play hardball."
Kirstie Alley
"When I play ball, I play hardball."
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"We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid."
Branford Marsalis
"We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid."
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"With foxes we must play the fox."
Thomas Fuller
"With foxes we must play the fox."
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"I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards."
Caroline Corr
"I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards."
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"I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play."
Gary Burton
"I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play."
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"If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us."
Lawrence Welk
"If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us."
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"I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve."
Xavier Cugat
"I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve."
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"The stars handle it very graciously. They let you know. They know how to play the game."
Mary Hart
"The stars handle it very graciously. They let you know. They know how to play the game."
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"But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great."
Rick Wakeman
"But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great."
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"Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only."
Ritchie Blackmore
"Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only."
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"It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side."
Lukas Haas
"It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side."
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"The Sims is kind of an interesting case because we had all these expansion packs. We were able to incrementally add on and explore without invading the core dynamic or the core game play."
Will Wright
"The Sims is kind of an interesting case because we had all these expansion packs. We were able to incrementally add on and explore without invading the core dynamic or the core game play."
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"I don't like to play the victim."
Barry Pepper
"I don't like to play the victim."
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"If you play more than two chords, you're showing off."
Woody Guthrie
"If you play more than two chords, you're showing off."
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"I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have."
Ana Gasteyer
"I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have."
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"The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks."
Stevie Ray Vaughan
"The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks."
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"We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing."
Lou Gramm
"We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing."
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"Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys."
Stephen Hopkins
"Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys."
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"We've all listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, haven't we? We all know how not to play a psychiatrist."
Lesley-Anne Down
"We've all listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, haven't we? We all know how not to play a psychiatrist."
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"Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles."
Juliette Lewis
"Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles."
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"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."
Steve Swallow
"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."
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"My little cousin tells me I look like Magneto so I guess that's who I should probably play."
Robert Pattinson
"My little cousin tells me I look like Magneto so I guess that's who I should probably play."
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"As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites."
August Wilson
"As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites."
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"I don't get called very often to play innocents."
Christopher Meloni
"I don't get called very often to play innocents."
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"Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well."
David Ives
"Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well."
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"If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice."
Stan Getz
"If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice."
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"Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams."
Gilbert White
"Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams."
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"Whenever you're going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an image of what that person is and who he should be and so you really have to do your homework."
Joe Mantegna
"Whenever you're going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an image of what that person is and who he should be and so you really have to do your homework."
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