#laying

The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#being #conquerors #contests #english-speaking #field

I loved the opportunity to just transform my voice. I loved the idea of doing impressions and mimicking and playing around with the spectrum of your own voice. That's what I enjoy most about doing voice-overs. ↗

— Justin Long

#around #doing #enjoy #i #idea

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#characters #complete #i #playing #romantic

I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#build #characters #far #far away #how

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. ↗

— Robert Wilson Lynd

#almost #golf #how #impossible #place

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#i #i think #itself #life #myself

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#dresser #i #leave #made #many

I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#been #cards #deep #excepting #first

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#down #fit #fool #free #freedom

But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#audience #bit #greatest #i #live