#playin

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#been #chess #dice #fate #find

The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#clothes #good #good job #important #important thing

Playing lifts you out of yourself into a delirious place. ↗

— Jacqueline du Pre

#into #lifts #out #place #playing

I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly. ↗

— Richard Price

#chance #fly #how #i #i do

What we ought not do is play politics with those who've been afflicted by disasters. This should not be controversial. Stop playing politics, do the right thing for the country and let's make sure we're not making politics with disaster relief. ↗

— David Plouffe

#been #controversial #country #disaster #disasters

They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop. ↗

— Christopher Plummer

#alive #dying #even #i #old

Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and needs of ordinary people that did more to torpedo his campaign than any goodies Obama might have had to dole out. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#any #aside #bad #basically #being

I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music. ↗

— Michael Rapaport

#broad #cable #cars #city #excitement

But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix. ↗

— Noel Redding

#hendrix #i #now #people #playing

When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters. ↗

— Nikki Reed

#already #attached #because #become #been