Quotes with play-it-safers

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  • Barbara Jordan If you're going to play the game [politics] properly, you'd better know every rule.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Bonnie Hunt Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Bjork In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot In a different era, I would have called myself a natural philosopher. All my life, I have enjoyed the reputation of being someone who disrupted prevailing ideas. Now that I'm in my 80th year, I can play on my age and provoke people even more.
    New Scientist interview
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • John Millington Synge In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
    John Millington Synge
    Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer (1871 - 1909)
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  • Carine Roitfeld In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Billy Joel In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Ajay Naidu In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Beck In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Dustin Hoffman In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
    Dustin Hoffman
    American actor and director (1937 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Billy Strayhorn In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.
    Billy Strayhorn
    American jazz composer and pianist (1915 - 1967)
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  • Bruno Schulz In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
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  • Joe Montana In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.
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  • Bill Skarsgard In terms of jobs, I'm an actor. There's gotta' be depth there. I'd never say yes to something just to play the hot guy. That's not what I'm interested in.
    Bill Skarsgard
    Swedish actor (1990 - )
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  • Bette Davis In the beginning was the Word,' and you must not be tempted with a script just because you have a great part. You want a great role to play, but the whole - the whole - must be good. It'll never succeed if it's just the role you like.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Carice van Houten In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.
    Carice van Houten
    Dutch actress, singer and radio presenter (1976 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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