#laying

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

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#before #began #five #four #i

I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#i #main #make #next #olympics

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#behind #great #physical #playing #traditions

For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey. ↗

— Barbara Mandrell

#care #doing #going #got #graduates

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#group #i #i write #listening #loves

There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#fall #gerry #hanging #i #just

In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#am #bones #even #fantasies #feel