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I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.
Marlene Dietrich

Beautiful, Big, Else

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung

Work, Creative, Playing

I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.
Whitney Houston

Crazy, Ego, Hell

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
Fran Lebowitz

Winning, Done, Whether

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.
LeBron James

Care, Game, Put

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
Bill Watterson

Dreams, Long, Together

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Honore de Balzac

Trying, Majority, Violin

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!
Richard P. Feynman

Work, Computers, Serious

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.
Helen Hayes

Life, Worst, Compared

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
Louisa May Alcott

Life, Success, Work

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.
Larry Bird

Leadership, Giving, Through

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.
Mike Ditka

God, Wanted, Soccer

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
Saint Augustine

Great, Heart, Feeling

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.
Dave Brubeck

Mistakes, Before, Chance

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
Pablo Neruda

Lost, Him, Child

The mind cannot long play the heart's role.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Mind, Heart, Long

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
Willie Nelson

Makes, Choice, Lovers

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
Blaise Pascal

End, Last, Earth

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Edmund Burke

Fire, Cannot, House

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Heraclitus

Child, Himself, Achieves

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote

Life, Good, Act

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
Neil Gaiman

Live, Mind, Else

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
Tiger Woods

Dad, Sports, Fun

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
John Steinbeck

Give, Write, Critic

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.
Johan Cruijff

Simple, Difficult, Soccer

The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.
Seth Godin

Work, Time, Home

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot

May, Happen, Others

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
Harvey Fierstein

Change, Sex, Thought

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