Quotes with play-mates

Quotes 401 till 420 of 535.

  • B. D. Wong The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bob Seger The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Babe Ruth The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Branford Marsalis The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Albert Einstein The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Oscar Wilde The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ben Parr The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Bobby Hull Then to have Brett come along and follow in the footsteps, it's so gratifying. I get as much enjoyment out of watching Brett play as I did of entertaining people myself.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen There ain't a note that I play on stage that can't be traced back directly to my mother and father.
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    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Brooks Atkinson There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Anatole Broyard There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Louis Armstrong There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.
    Louis Armstrong
    American trumpeter, composer and singer (1901 - 1971)
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  • Barry McGuire There was a report that used to come out back in those days, I don't know if it was the Gavin Report or something like that. And they said, no matter what McGuire comes out with next, we're not gonna play it.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Bela Lugosi There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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