#lays

I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester. ↗

— John Thaw

#baker #couple #did #fruit #i

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#i #importance #leisure #lives #many

I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry. ↗

— Leon Theremin

#artistry #conceived #conductor #create #effect

We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#character #conflicts #fascinating #know #larger

The plays I remember are the plays I made a mistake. ↗

— Jim Otto

#i remember #made #mistake #plays #remember

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#composer #his #mean #necessarily #own

I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong. ↗

— John Osborne

#i #i think #never #out #people

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie. ↗

— Al Pacino

#coppola #cut #days #did #directions

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.' ↗

— Al Pacino

#plays #shakespeare #than #violent

Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#delays #discouraging #granting #investment #investors