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Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.

I don't like to disappear between records. I like to play shows while I'm making the record.

I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if I had written it myself.

I definitely have to give myself permission, like on "Master Swarm," to rip a lead on that. Just play a violin solo that's - it's a bit showoff-y, but it's fun, so who cares?

I still play solo shows. And some of those shows are still some of the best, most gratifying shows.

I don't want to play in pain. I'm 25, it's my life.

Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

I am extremely proud of everything I have achieved as a cricketer, and I have found myself very fortunate to play in an era when some of English cricket's greatest moments have occurred.

In 'Play Misty For Me', its inexplicably assertive knife-woman nearly manages the impossible task of slaughtering Clint Eastwood.

Dating is tricky these days. Everyone plays by different dating rules, so don't assume anything.

Part of my job being a leader and captain of the team is not just to play well and lead well but find a way to make everybody around me better.

There are other tracks that are more reliant upon the beat. Like nobody's going to sit there and play "Harlem Shake" on the guitar!

My dad taught me how to play. He was a great amateur player in Curacao.

Injuries are injuries, everybody has them. You play with it. I don't make excuses.

It's fun to play someone who seems evil and to reveal their vulnerabilities.

It's great fun to memorize somebody's biography, and then liberally play with the real facts of their life and go a step beyond reality.

I definitely know that I play the part, however big or small, in the deaths of at least two people, Chris Farley and Phil Hartmann.

I've always been lucky enough to just play tennis, so I never actually had a job when I was growing up.

Everybody always talks about the pressure of playing at Wimbledon, how tough it is, but the people watching make it so much easier to play.

I play fantasy basketball and fantasy football, soccer.

Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.

Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey

I count it an honor to play with some guys that I've watched play on television, and may be in the Hall of Fame some day.

No, actually I wanted to play five. I definitely wanted to try to lose that fourth set and test the waters in the fifth.

I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'

'The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and it meant a lot to me to finally get to play it after all these years.

I actually think I play better now than Ive ever played.

If someone from Germany or somewhere, who had no idea what baseball was, saw Kruk play, he'd wonder what the beer truck driver was doing playing first base.

If everyone were like him (Mitch Williams) I wouldn't play. I'd find a safer way to make a living.

Any pianist and singer/songwriter would say "Carnegie Hall." It's such a legendary place. I'd love to play at Carnegie Hall. That's definitely dream of mine.

My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did.

I learned a lot about 3D animation from and with my dear friend Michael Hemschoot of Workerstudio. Taught me that I want to play more with animation and image manipulation. Fun stuff!

Everything I did actually helped to build the revenue, shall we say, of experience, which enabled me to play a variety of roles as I got older.

They're great devotees of Noel Coward in England, of course, he's a favorite son, and so to play Coward in London is such fun, and anyway, the role is such a crazy lady. I just love doing that.

I'm able to give a voice to the athletes around the world - use my degree for something other than the power play.

I wish I could play the whole game and come back tomorrow.

I look at myself, and how much I've gotten just because I play a sport well.

I like to hide behind the characters I play.

It's been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain.

I have a certain energy on screen, and it's either needed or it's definitely not needed. I know that I can stick out like a sore thumb, and there are some women I'm not ready to play.

I think if you've never been pregnant, you can over play pregnant and you can do a lot of different things with pregnant.

I work out, I play sports, I go to concerts.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

The way I play guitar is very, very hard and I bloody myself incredibly without the tape. And the nails are my picks.

Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the Crown of Thorns.

I don't put any rules to my style; I think fashion is something that you should play with... even if you make a mistake, it's okay, it's only fashion.

Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.

My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George.