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  • Bill Laswell Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there's a lot of cold non-musical music, for lack of a better description.
    Bill Laswell
    American bass guitarist (1955 - )
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  • Alec Guinness Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
    Alec Guinness
    English actor (1914 - 2000)
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  • Oswald C. Hoffman Evangelism as the New Testament describes it is not child's play. Evangelism is work, often hard work. Yet it is not drudgery. It puts person in good humor, and makes him truly human.
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  • Bobby Doerr Even after I played ten years of ball, I still felt like I had to play well or somebody might take my place. They had plenty of players in the minor leagues who were good enough to come up and take your job, and I think that kept us going all of the time. I hustled and put that extra effort in all of the time.
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  • Truman Capote Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Billy West Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play it, and I was in bands.
    Billy West
    American voice actor and musician (1952 - )
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  • Bill Medley Every so often, if I'm in a melancholy mood, I'll sing 'Desperado' in my shows. I'll sit alone at the piano and play it as a solo. The song feels like an old friend - except now it's saying, 'You were a desperado once, but you worked your way out of it.'
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg Everybody who knows anything about me knows all I ever wanted to do is play pro football. But I didn't have the talent, and I got hurt a lot. I'd do anything to be out on the field.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Bobby Sands Everyone, Republican or otherwise, has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small; no one is too old or too young to do something.
    Bobby Sands
    Irish activist and IRA member (1954 - 1981)
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  • Bonnie Tyler Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Bruce Dickinson Fans want to see people who can play; they respect certain values like professionalism, and they don't want to be treated like shit. They pay good money and they look forward to seeing some good music being played by decent musicians, who really put their soul into it.
    Tobler, John (1992)
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Bipasha Basu Films with female protagonists don't attract many eyeballs. Most of them are perceived as feminist films. If Bollywood starts giving women major roles in entertaining movies, then the audience, too, will open up to the idea of watching commercial films in which the actresses do more than just play the role of the hero's love interest.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Casey Stengel Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Bill Simmons Five days after the Tsarnaev brothers blew up Boston's most sacred event, and just 24 hours after one brother was killed and the other was caught, everyone decided that it was OK to play baseball at Fenway again. The game happened on a Saturday afternoon, preceded by an emotional ceremony and many prayers.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Bill Klem Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.
    Bill Klem
    American professional baseball umpire (1874 - 1951)
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  • Ben Gibbard For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard For 'Narrow Stairs,' the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Ann Rule For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a trial than to a Broadway play. Now that we have Court TV, they see what I mean.
    Ann Rule
    American author of true crime books (0 - 2015)
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  • Bill Medley For Bobby and I to sing R&B and sound black was probably the stupidest thing we could do. White radio stations wouldn't play us because they thought we were black. Black stations wouldn't play us because they thought we were white. Any time you break ground, you go against the grain.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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