#playin

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory. ↗

— Douglass North

#brilliant #chess #economic #economic theory #first

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing. ↗

— Edward Norton

#about #achieve #actor #audience #character

Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#between #create #emotion #equally #incapable

I'm really into Sweet 75 right now, and I dig playing Nirvana, don't get me wrong. Even if Kurt never died, more than likely I'd be in Sweet 75 today still. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#dig #even #get #i #into

We're all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#along #bat #clicked #get #good

'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together. ↗

— Gary Numan

#day #different #electric #few #finish

I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. ↗

— Dan O'Brien

#baseball #bruce #gold #i #league

At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#big #computer #end #feel #occasionally

It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#changes #chord #chords #computer #haven

What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#doing #exactly #finn #friends #his