Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Writing Quotes, Play Quotes

If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.

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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.

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All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.

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I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

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What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.

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Despite being in showbiz, I have a very real approach to my life. It plays off with my social life.

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Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the role they play in the transmission of ideas is lost in the background.

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Villa will probably play a lot worse than this and lose.

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I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

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Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation. Habit can become a second nature, but, wrongly directed (or guided), it may also heighten (or intensify) unfortunate tendencies and be an obstacle to progress.

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I did a little film called Nina, a small role. I played a French girl who was a nurse to Nina Simone. Zoe Saldana plays Nina.

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I don't know how I'm gonna pick up a bat again. I just need to be away for a bit and play with my dogs.

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If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.

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I don't have any tricky plays. I'd rather have tricky players.

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Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.

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Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

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What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?

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The best compliment for me is when someone says they'll pay to watch me play, And I can say that I'll pay to watch MS Dhoni bat. MS is not the next Gilchrist. He's the first MS Dhoni

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My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt.

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