Quotes with playing-fields

Quotes 221 till 240 of 281.

  • Bryce Dallas Howard There's something really freeing about playing a character that isn't even, like, remotely likeable whatsoever.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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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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  • Carl Hubbell They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
    Carl Hubbell
    American baseball player (1903 - )
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  • William Wordsworth This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Blaise Pascal Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
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    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Jami To display his eternal attributes in their inexhaustible variety, the Lord made the green fields of time and space.
    Jami
    Arabic Sufi poet, scholar and writer
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  • Carmine Coppola To me, there is nothing like the excitement and unique experience of a live orchestra playing.
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  • Bobby Vinton Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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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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  • B. D. Wong Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Samuel Butler Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Marianne Williamson We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
    A Return To Love
    Marianne Williamson
    American writer (1952 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Benny Green We have fun, we listen to one another, we challenge one another, we trust one another. We're doing what we enjoy, and we're not just playing for each other, we're playing for the people.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Bobby Doerr We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old, I was always over at the ballpark practicing or playing or doing something pertaining to baseball. And when I wasn't doing that, I was bouncing a rubber ball off the steps of my front porch at home.
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  • Abraham Cowley We may talk what we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields of d'or or d'argent, but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Bud Grant We never had anybody who froze to death playing football. You probably had somebody who died from heat stroke playing football.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Winston Churchill We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bob Lilly We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime.
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