Quotes with play-it-safers

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  • Butch Trucks There's always going to be a percentage of the kids out there who want to hear people who can actually play and sing.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bryan Singer There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just go out and watch a play.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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  • Ben Platt There's something to be said for any boy growing up among lots of other boys who like to play basketball and football, while all I wanted to do was put on musicals. Mentally, I was always in my own world.
    Ben Platt
    American actor, singer, and songwriter (1993 - )
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  • Barry Humphries There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Bernie Sanders These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer They have nothing on me, those guys. They can't even touch me. Some people rate them better than me. That really bugs me. They think that no Americans play chess. When I meet those Russian patzers I'll put them in their place.
    Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Wallace Stevens They said, ''You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, ''Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.''
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Buddy Rich They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Shaquille O'Neal This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.
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  • Butch Trucks This is show business, and there's room for the shows and the personalities. But I think there's also room for music, for people to play music, and there seems to be an audience developing that's willing to go listen to music again, rather than just be blown away by drum machines and choreography.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bill Irwin This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week.
    Bill Irwin
    American actor, clown and comedian (1950 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Brent Sexton To me, any character that is conflicted inside as well as outside of themselves is always a better role to play.
    Brent Sexton
    American actor (1967 - )
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  • Bobby Vinton To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Benny Goodman To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • Beth Grant Tone is so important because you can have a great script just be ruined with the wrong director - if they shtick it up or something. With 'Little Miss Sunshine,' I was so concerned they weren't going to play the pageant official realistically because you don't have to wink to play those kinds of characters.
    Beth Grant
    American actress (1949 - )
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  • Bennet Omalu Trust in the great American ingenuity. We can derive more intelligent, more brain-friendly ways we can play football.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Bonnie Bedelia Unless you burst into movies as a sex goddess, you're likely to play wives and mothers. I came into movies as a teenager in 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They' (1969) playing a pregnant waif from the Ozarks. I didn't get a chance to burst into movies in 'Body Heat.' My career isn't based on having a 23-inch waist and a big bust, though I do.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Billy Gibbons Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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