Quotes About Play

I wrote a play that I directed and I was in, and I paid for the sets and the costumes and to put it up in a theater all through modeling. It really afforded me a lot of creative control in my life.

Why any playmaker if you get them the ball early, it helps with their confidence and their mojo and their momentum.

I'm getting my confidence and momentum, and I'm playing free and playing loose.

I think I'll be one of those moms that doesn't raise her kids with too much technology around because I didn't have much of that growing up. I was creative and played with what I had.

The issue of how the game is played is something that's constantly being reviewed internally with the Players' Association, with the general managers, and it's something that we continue to monitor on a daily basis.

My first taste of theater was my middle school play. We did 'The Jungle Book.' I auditioned for Mowgli, which I didn't get. I ended up playing a part as one of the monkeys.

I want to create a kind of new monster language for kids to play with, pick up, and incorporate into their own vocabularies.

Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.

Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

When you win in Montreal, it's the best place in the world to play hockey.

I kind of see clothes a bit like role-playing, depending what mood I'm in.

The only memory I have of playing the saxophone was in a school play. We put on 'Grease,' which is still one of my favorite movies. I played Danny, and I slid out on my knees and played a really out-of-tune 'Blue Moon.'

I try to turn off the TV and play with my kids as much as I can, and I always hope they're having as good a time as Mormon kids.

There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.

Sometimes when you're doing fantasy, that's the most important thing, is to be a blank space, because the last thing you want to do ever as an actor is judge yourself or the character or the movie that you're in. You want to just play the moment as best you can. Juilliard helped me do that.

Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck.

It is always good when you play away because the fans support their team, and it gives you more motivation to play well.

I think you are wrong if you play a Champions League game, and you don't find motivation.

I'm a great listener - I play records all the time at home. And I play guitar as a hobby. So inspiration has never been a big problem for me, but motivation can be a bit difficult sometimes.

You hit a certain age and it's, are you still motivated to play? It's the motivation, the drive that kind of leads you, and the body goes, too.

Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual.

Just as in the physical world, people within virtual worlds perform and cycle through different roles and identities. Virtual worlds make such shifts explicit, as well as introducing spaces for play and performance.

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