Plays Quotes
1510 quotes by 1229 authors
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To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every…
— Lady Gregory
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I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
— Garry Wills
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Regular church-goers are substantially more likely than non-attenders to read, to take newspapers and magazines, to listen to classical music, to attend symphony concerts, operas,…
— Rodney Stark
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Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains…
— Antonio Damasio
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I can never say that I will never return to musical theatre. There may be a part in the future that I really want to…
— Sarah Brightman
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Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more…
— Hanna Rosin
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Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be…
— Iain McGilchrist
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Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter.
— Eve Myles
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Every man plays many roles. So far, I have played father the best.
— Dhanush
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America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing…
— Djimon Hounsou
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I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out…
— Dustin Milligan
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When Shakespeare wrote, he wrote for the people. I know he got commissioned by kings and queens, but he also actually was writing plays for…
— Eamonn Walker
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It makes me very happy when I create goals or score goals myself, but the most important thing is that the team reaches its goal…
— Mesut Ozil
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One of my favourite actresses is Kate Winslet. She plays strong female characters and seems like she has a strong political awareness. I really like…
— Emily Perkins
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I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could do…
— Tom Riley
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You need to understand the batsman, where he plays his shot usually, which is his release shot, and then change the angle, vary the pace,…
— Harbhajan Singh
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I am really fortunate to have parents who supported my plan to become an actress when I was a little kid. And then there was…
— Unknown Author
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No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer…
— Ken Stott
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I loved putting on stories as plays when I was just six. I was the director, the actress and the set designer; I cast my…
— Mili Avital
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I have actually directed over thirty plays and about one hundred commercials for cable TV, but have not yet had the opportunity to direct a…
— Sid Haig
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