Quotes with sitar-playing

Quotes 81 till 100 of 220.

  • Bill Bryson If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea what popular Turkish music is like.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Woody Allen If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bobby Orr If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Campbell Scott If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.
    Campbell Scott
    American actor, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Casey Stengel If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Barry Sanders In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Alejandro Amenabar In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.
    Alejandro Amenabar
    Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer (1972 - )
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  • Bernadette Peters In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Billy Corgan In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Beau Willimon In politics, it's very theatrical. There's a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Alan Parsons In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • Bill Gates Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back into the company.
    Comment to reporters during the IBM PC launch
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Bubba Watson Instead of playing with army men or whatever, I played golf, like for hours every day.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Karen Horney Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?
    Karen Horney
    German-American psychoanalyst (1885 - 1952)
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  • Bobby Keys It doesn't matter how many times I've played 'Brown Sugar', I never get tired of playing it.
    Bobby Keys
    American saxophonist (1943 - 2014)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Barry Sanders It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Callum Keith Rennie It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
    Callum Keith Rennie
    British-born Canadian actor (1960 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist It was like a heavyweight fight, man. Just blow for blow, everybody playing their heart out. The Indians never gave up either, and I can't believe we're finally standing, after 108 years, finally able to hoist the trophy.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Buddy Wakefield It was not my intention to make such a production of the emptiness between us, playing tuba on the tombstone of a soprano to try to keep some dead singer's perspective alive. It's just that I could have swore you had sung me a love song back there; and that you meant it.
    Poetry Hurling Crowbirds at Mockingbars
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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