Quotes with plays

  • The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.
  • Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
  • 'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.
  • Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.
  • Many plays, are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
  • You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.
  • Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.
  • For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
  • Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Ben Foster 'A Streetcar Named Desire' is one of the best, if not the best, modern American plays. It deals with family dynamics, mental health, PTSD, war, and love. It's hard to beat.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Candace Camp 'The Marrying Season' is the final book in the 'Legend of St. Dwynwen' series, and in each of the three books, a small village church in the Cotswolds plays a significant role.
    Candace Camp
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Bennet Omalu A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Ace Frehley A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Josh Billings A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Gail Godwin Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.
    Gail Godwin
    American novelist and short story writer (1937 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw All my plays are masterpieces except the last one.
    George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • A. E. Housman But from my grave across my brow
    Plays no wind of healing now,
    And fire and ice within me fight
    Beneath the suffocating night.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 30, st. 4
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Buddy Rich But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Vince Lombardi Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Bobby Hull Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Billy Collins For most Americans, poetry plays no role in their everyday lives. But also for most Americans, contemporary painting or jazz or sculpture play no role either. I'm not saying poetry is singled out as a special thing to ignore.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bobby Jones Golf is recognized as one of the more difficult games to play or teach. One reason for this is that each person necessarily plays by feel, and a feel is almost impossible to describe.
    Bobby Jones
    American golfer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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