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Quotes About Playing

I'm really in retirement. My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.
~ Dick Van Dyke
When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools.
~ E. J. Dionne
This is where the gods play games with the lives of men, on a board which is at one and the same time a simple playing area and the whole world. And Fate always wins.
~ Terry Pratchett
I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.
~ Tiger Woods
I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.
~ Laurie Simmons
When you don't have time to do your job, that's a good indication you're playing the wrong game.
~ Mark Millar
But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time.
~ Miroslav Vitous
The night schedule is a crazy pit I fall into most of the time, but I do like it because the buzz of normal professionalism has gone away. Even though you're working, you feel like you're playing.
~ Nate Lowman
Here come the guests. Keep calm, now, and we'll go on playing our old roles.
~ August Strindberg
Among the maniacs things were more cheerful, a group of them sat by iron beds, playing on the springs like harps and singing in chorus; "We ain't got no ma or pa, 'cause we is au-tom-a-ta," also "Ro, ro, ro your bot, gently down the stream," and so forth.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Here are just a few activities highly accomplished professional musicians consider to be practice, not in any particular order: Listening Performing Watching others perform Playing informally Improvising Teaching Composing Group rehearsal
~ Jonathan Harnum
Wit and its employment as a weapon not only in political combat but in playing with one's friends was at the core of the Goostree's Gang.
~ Eric Metaxas
The cats at the edge of the clearing were staring up at the sky, their eyes huge with fear. As he looked upward, Fireheart heard the beating of wings and saw a hawk circling above the trees, its harsh cry drifting on the air. At the same time he realized that one cat had not taken shelter; Snowkit was tumbling and playing in the middle of the open space. "Snowkit!" Speckletail yowled desperately.
~ Erin Hunter
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
~ Bela Lugosi
We have fun, we listen to one another, we challenge one another, we trust one another. We're doing what we enjoy, and we're not just playing for each other, we're playing for the people.
~ Benny Green
I do believe anybody manufacturing products for healthcare cannot regard it truly as a 100 per cent business: it is business plus a humanitarian approach to society because you are saving lives. You are playing with people's lives.
~ Yusuf Hamied
Your influence and remuneration is directly proportionate to your film's success. So in that sense, Bollywood is a level playing field. If you are delivering on certain parameters, regardless of your gender, you will get paid.
~ Kanika Dhillon
As for me not playing for England, I've got no regret at all.
~ Wilfried Zaha
I don't think about the record, because winning games has to be our focus, and if we lost focus thinking about that record, I would really regret it. How will I feel later on? People tell me it will mean a lot after I retire, for the kids and me. But to me, it's just a stat. It's something people enjoy talking about. Me? I just enjoy playing.
~ John Stockton
It was a difficult decision to leave Liverpool but I knew it was something I had to do to get playing regularly and improve.
~ Conor Coady
Playing in Norway allowed me to get back out onto the pitch and get game time, it was great to be playing regularly again.
~ Kyle Lafferty
I'm naturally going to react to that and he'll bring out elements in my musical character that were lying dormant, because I'm relating what he's playing.
~ Benny Green
The prosthetics were interesting because the artist was so good that they could just put a Hitchcock mask on me, but you don't want to do that. You're an actor playing Hitchcock, so it's about how much of that you're going to do.
~ Toby Jones
If you're tanking to get a higher draft pick, you really shouldn't be playing hockey.
~ Connor McDavid