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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Play Quotes

Linus van Pelt: I can’t go out to play after school for a whole week, Charlie Brown. My dad says my report card was so poor I have to stay in.
Charlie Brown: Oh, what are you doing, studying?
Linus van Pelt: No, watching TV!

– Charles M. Schulz

I guess play piano, you know, because that’s the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.

– Harry Connick, Jr.

I wouldn’t be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably act better than Dr. John and play the piano better than Al Pacino.

– Hugh Laurie

After you play a part, you think of it as your own.

– Gena Rowlands

The play is a marvelous form, but it demands less than a novel.

– Howard Fast

When I was 13 or 14, I took seven months off from touring. I did a lot of weekend gigs in Louisiana. We have fairs and festivals every weekend. But I took seven months off. That’s when I really started digging deep. I wrote a couple songs that year that I still play every now and then for people.

– Hunter Hayes

Ease up, the play is over.

– Horace Greeley

I’m a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don’t play for a year, my chops aren’t going to get any worse. I’ve spent my time playing scales, and I don’t necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.

– Harry Connick, Jr.

Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.

– Hans Zimmer

I’m not a big gamer, really. I used to play back in the day – ‘Mario Brothers,’ ‘Mario Kart’ and ‘Mortal Kombat.’

– Grace Park

I rarely play a real person, because I don’t think I’m a good imitator.

– Harrison Ford

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it’s the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what’s available, what somebody happens to play for you.

– Gerry Mulligan

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

– Gustav Mahler

I seem to play a lot of troubled kids.

– Holliday Grainger

Lois Griffin: Stewie why don’t you play in the other room?
Stewie Griffin: Why don’t you burn in hell?
Lois Griffin: Well, no dessert for you, young man.

Family Guy, Death Has a Shadow.

The point is to almost be child-minded, like you’re discovering music for the first time, every time you play.

– Gerald Clayton

I think I had set-backs, but I still always had that belief that I was going to play for Tottenham Hotspur. Even when I went out on loan to clubs, it was always to come back and be a Spurs player.

– Harry Kane

I’m doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called ‘The Boy from Oz,’ where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don’t know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.

– Hugh Jackman

I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don’t think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn’t have before.

– Harriet Walter

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it’s six degrees of separation.

– Hector Elizondo

I don’t know how other bands play the same songs every night.

– Grant-Lee Phillips

I like to play women who blaze trails.

– Hilary Swank

I like to play attacking, like a winger, or an attacking midfielder, so it depends on the coach, where he’s looking at me for which position.

– Henrikh Mkhitaryan

Every year you suit up, you play for a championship. Some years, some teams… it was very few times I think I played on that realistically had a chance.

– Grant Hill

When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I’d play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.

– George Shearing

Like I always tell people, I don’t pander to any audience, but you have to play to your audience.

– Gary Owens

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.

– Grantland Rice

I don’t feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

– Hank Aaron

I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.

– Harold Pinter

Ford didn’t know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn’t repeating what was successful in New York. He was trying to do things to the play that would be his in the film.

– Henry Fonda

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