Quotes with play-it-safers

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  • William Shakespeare If it is true that 'good wine needs no bush', 't is true that a good play needs no epilogue.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Gray Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.
    Thomas Gray
    British poet (1716 - 1771)
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  • Albert Einstein God does not play dice with the universe.
    Original: Gott würfelt nicht.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Voltaire Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Colin Wilson A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
    Colin Wilson
    British writer (1931 - 2013)
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  • Sir Cecil Beaton Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
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  • Walter Cronkite I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.
    Walter Cronkite
    American broadcast journalist (1916 - 2009)
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  • H. A. L. Fisher I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.
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  • Tom Landry I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
    Tom Landry
    American football player and coach (1924 - 2000)
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  • Audie Murphy I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.
    Audie Murphy
    American soldier, actor and songwriter (1925 - 1971)
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  • Aaron Neville It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
    Aaron Neville
    American soul and country singer (1941 - )
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  • Sidney Madwed Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
    Sidney Madwed
    American business consultant, lyricist and author
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  • John Ruskin The last act crowns the play.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Brian Moore There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.
    Brian Moore
    British writer and screenwiter (1921 - 1999)
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  • Burning Spear When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Bel Powley 'Diary of a Teenage Girl' was my first American movie. It was my first movie in an American accent. It's based on a graphic novel, which was written in 2002 by someone called Phoebe Gloeckner. It was turned into a play by Marielle Heller, who then wrote it as a screenplay for Sundance Labs.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Barbara Windsor 'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.
    Barbara Windsor
    English actress (1937 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Bell Hooks ...there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Billy Wilder A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
    Culture and Commitment, 1929-1945 (1973)
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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