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  • Peter Townshend 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.
    Peter Townshend
    English musician, singer, songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Eugene Field Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.
    Eugene Field
    American writer (1850 - 1895)
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  • Bastian Schweinsteiger My absolute dream would be to play for Manchester United and help them reach the goals they have.
    Bastian Schweinsteiger
    German professional footballer (1984 - )
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  • Beth Riesgraf My background is in dance. No, I'm kidding. I was actually really uncoordinated as a child, when it came to dance, but I did play a lot of sports, and I do some break-dancing from time-to-time. No, I really don't.
    Beth Riesgraf
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Bill Kreutzmann My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Beth Grant My daughter's favorite musical is 'Wicked,' which she has seen hundreds of times - she even worked as an usher at the Pantages so she could see it over and over. Her dream is to play Elphaba.
    Beth Grant
    American actress (1949 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My first time I directed a play was 'No Exit,' a play set in a subway.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Brian Austin Green My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Brendan Gleeson My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Ben Folds My idea is to play with the people who you know want to get it right. Then it's fun and easy to record, and you can get down to details, like taking out cymbals so the verse doesn't dwarf the chorus, something like that.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Bob Seger My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • B. B. King My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Barbara Stanwyck My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.
    Barbara Stanwyck
    American actress, model and dancer (1907 - 1990)
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  • Billy Crudup My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • B. B. King My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Louis Armstrong Never play a thing the same way twice.
    Louis Armstrong
    American trumpeter, composer and singer (1901 - 1971)
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  • Nelson Algren Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
    Nelson Algren
    American writer (1909 - 1981)
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  • Gloria Steinem No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bon Scott No matter how long you play rock and roll, songs might change just as long as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us
    Interview with Record Review, 1979
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  • Stephen Hawking Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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