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«Playing Shakespeare is so tiring. You never get a chance to sit down unless you're a king.»
Author: Josephine Hull
(Actress)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
play down, Shakespeare, sit down, tiring
«Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.»
«My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.»
Author: Noel Coward
(Actor, Composer, Playwright)
| Keywords:
fewer, intend, of my own, on the other hand, play down, relatively, tremendous, warier, wary
«When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.»
«I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.»
Author: Leo F. Buscaglia
| About:
Enthusiasm,
Play
| Keywords:
against, against the wind, down, enthusiastic, leaves, play, play down, run, running play, skip, skipped, skipping, skips, still, The Wind, wildly, wind
«Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth -it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million...»
Author: Ted Turner
(Entrepreneur)
| About:
Money
| Keywords:
change-up, eighth, eighths, play down, seconds, slot, slot machine
«Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.»
Author: Walt Disney
(Producer)
| Keywords:
adults, general interest, Olds, play down, reaching, segment, segments, talk down
«Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native American, native born, immigrant, straight or gay -- whatever; the test ought to be I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow. I'm building that bridge to the 21st century. That ought to be the test.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
American Constitution, American elder, bill, Bill of Rights, declaration, Declaration of, Declaration of Independence, disabilities, disability, gay man, gay men, immigrant, immigrants, native, Native American, play down, religious freedom, religious liberty, religious person, The 21st Century, The Bill, The Declaration of Independence
«I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down»
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