#play

But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls. ↗

— Edwin Booth

#cast #curtain #falls #fitted #found

There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it. ↗

— Shirley Booth

#enough #every #find #just #long

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life. ↗

— Anthony Bourdain

#great #life #meals #memory #play

I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#anything #arenas #because #crazy #ego

It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance - I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I'd done. ↗

— Matthew Bourne

#away #back #be nice #dance #done

Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#best work #characters #greater #i #love

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan. ↗

— David Bowie

#behind #dad #get #going #grow

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

If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune. ↗

— Count Basie

#person #play #tap #their #tune

Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe. ↗

— Mario Batali

#any #brilliance #catastrophe #club #eighteen