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  • Bill Laswell Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
    Bill Laswell
    American bass guitarist (1955 - )
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  • Billy Dee Williams Right before 'Brian's Song' there was a period when I was very despondent, broke, depressed; my first marriage was on the rocks. The role of Gale Sayers had been cast with Lou Gossett, and then he hurt himself playing basketball. I was called in to read for the role. I was their last choice, and I knew it.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Birgitte Hjort Sorensen Right before I graduated from the national theatre school, I got the part of Roxie Hart in 'Chicago' in Copenhagen. That led to me playing it here in London. I was 26 when I came over for that. It was the first thing I did as a professional, and it is still the experience of my life.
    Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
    Danish actrice (1982 - )
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  • A. A. Milne So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing.
    The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Bob Lilly Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
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  • Basil Rathbone Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.
    Basil Rathbone
    English actor (1892 - 1967)
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  • Denis Waitley Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Cate Campbell Swimming a 50 m is like playing the pokies: you push a button, and you never know what is going come up; it may be a mixed bag.
    Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • Frederick Frieseke Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?
    Frederick Frieseke
    American-born French painter (1874 - 1939)
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  • Boris Becker Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Arthur Wellesley The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
    Arthur Wellesley
    Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman (1769 - 1852)
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  • Carl Lewis The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Orson Welles The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • André Malraux The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Billy Preston The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him.
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  • Benny Green The first time we performed as a duo, we had already been playing together in various situations.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Billie Jean King The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
    Billie Jean
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • B. B. King The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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