#ball

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#bricks #fact #fragments #had #improvisation

I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually. ↗

— Shania Twain

#football #good #i #lot #played

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on. ↗

— Peter Ueberroth

#baseball #certain #commissioners #goes #over

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#been #british #had #influence #never

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere. ↗

— Bill Veeck

#attitude #audience #baseball #crowd #distinctive

All my life my priority was football, football, football. I was just fully focused on that and when my kids were born that focus changed gradually. I had something in my life that changed my perspective. You experience something that is more important than win, lose or draw. ↗

— Mark Viduka

#changed #draw #experience #focus #focused

I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward. ↗

— Henry Villard

#abraham lincoln #ballot #chagrin #fully #i

It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable. ↗

— Emily Watson

#anxiety #ball #different #different kind #doing

I was born into a family of gospel singers. My early ambitions were many. I was going to be a ballerina. I almost had that one come true until I tore a tendon, so I transferred from my toes to my throat and that's where the talent settled. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#ballerina #born #come #early #family

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all. ↗

— Earl Weaver

#baseball #chance #clock #damn #few