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Quotes About Play

I love playing with words and texture.
~ Binyavanga Wainaina
It's ridiculous to think that you get to play a game you love for a job you get paid for.
~ Brady Quinn
I definitely like to stay active. Im a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live.
~ Brendan Dooling
I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.
~ Bruce Davison
I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.
~ Bruce Davison
Even though I love fashion, I prefer people to fashion. Fashion is to make the person comfortable in her body, itÂ's not something very serious, you get to play.
~ Carine Roitfeld
There are lots and lots of different films that I love, and watching different characters and how different people play them.
~ Cher Lloyd
Kids love robots. They're this fanciful, cool thing.
~ Cynthia Breazeal
I love playing sport.
~ Damian Lewis
Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage.
~ David Wenham
I love Buster Keaton and I love physical comedy when it's done in an emotionally understated way. I just like to play it, and I need the attention.
~ Demetri Martin
I love not feeling this hydraulic pressure that you have to create this comic moment within every scene. You can just play it as it is.
~ Donal Logue
I love to play, I love to dance, I love to party . . . I'm a liver. I think what I need to learn is how to find the calmness, the centeredness.
~ Donna Karan
How I Learned to Drive I think it's one of the great American plays. Its one of those plays that will be done forever, and it's timeless. I think it, for me, has so much heart and so much love.
~ Elizabeth Reaser
I just love making sounds. Anything that made a sound, as a kid I was just taken back by and would sit with it for ages and just try and make all different sounds on it.
~ Ella Henderson
Love is not shown by giving your toddler a car. It's better demonstrated by clapping as she bangs on pots or singing to her while she plays with her cheap little bath toys in the tub.
~ Emily Yoffe
Life is more than love and pleasure, I came to dig for treasure.If you want to play, you gotta pay, You know it's always been that wayWe all came digging for treasure.
~ Stephen King, Duma Key
You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.
~ Kelly White
I do know this about pride: pride is tiring, a cruel task-master, a complicator, a destroyer. Humility, in contrast, relaxes, refreshes, relieves, simplifies, renews. To the degree that becoming childlike includes becoming humble, humility releases childlike play, laughter, sleep, smiles, fun. Our pride forces us to take ourselves so seriously, which leads us to take others less seriously and God less seriously still.
~ Brian D. McLaren
All work and no play makes Matthias a dull mouse.
~ Brian Jacques
Food to eat and games to play. Tell me why, tell me why. Serve it out and eat it up. Have a try, have a try.
~ Brian Jacques
No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
We were having so much fun gossiping about the show that it was nearly half an hour before we got back to the subject of the microfilm. Actually, I was the one who got us on track again when I suddenly shouted, July, 1935! in a voice far too loud for the library. Sam looked at me strangely. That's the date of the play, I said, blushing. I just remembered it.
~ Bruce Coville
This sort of information gathering is precisely what we call play. And the important function of play is thus revealed: it permits us to gain, without any particular future application in mind, a holistic understanding of the world, which is both a complement of and a preparation for later analytical activities.
~ Carl Sagan