#laying

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn't matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#cowardice #fear #martial-heroics #physical-violence #playing-dead

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#acting #artifice #falsehood #game #games

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke? ↗

— Rita Rudner

#feeling #get #god #joke #men

Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#actually #canal #career #decisions #i

I prefer working on films. I like the variety. There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then playing someone sweet for the next two. Films give you this opportunity. ↗

— Amy Weber

#bad girl #better #films #girl #give

This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.' ↗

— Jack White

#building #cable #cars #creative #dead

I got tired of playing other people's songs. ↗

— Gregg Allman

#i #other #people #playing #songs

There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot. ↗

— Curtis Armstrong

#amount #away #certain #character #charm

Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#chase #command #east #end #even

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition. ↗

— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

#affect #composition #comprises #conscious #content