#playin

A veteran, calm and assured, he pauses for a well-measured moment in the doorway of the office and then, boldly, clearly, with the subtly modulated British intonation which his public demands of him, speaks his opening line, 'Good morning!' And the three secretaries - each of them a charming and accomplished actress in her own chosen style - recognise him instantly, without even a flicker of doubt, and reply 'Good morning' to him. (There is something religious here, like responses in church; a reaffirmation of faith in the basic American dogma, that it is, always, a Good Morning. Good, despite the Russians and their rockets, and all the ills and worries of the flesh. For of course we know, don't we, that the Russians and the worries are not real? They can be unsought and made to vanish. And therefore the morning can ve made to be good. Very well then, it is good. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#playing-roles #rituals #self-delusion #faith

Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#conduct #expect #friends #good #good guy

Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That's what it's about. ↗

— LeBron James

#field #get #help #high #high level

I hadn't been practicing or playing or anything. But that had been a vital part of my life. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#been #had #hadn #i #life

As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career. ↗

— Cobi Jones

#coaching #contributed #exercises #fortunate #healthy

A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed. ↗

— Kelly Jones

#audience #back #been #dead #feed

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing. ↗

— Norah Jones

#college #coordinate #could #ever #gig

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. ↗

— Carl Jung

#come #creative #creative work #debt #ever

It's definitely more fun playing a bad guy. It feels a lot better than playing one of the good guys. ↗

— Tom Felton

#bad guy #better #definitely #feels #fun

My best score ever is 103, but I've only been playing 15 years. ↗

— Alex Karras

#best #ever #i #only #playing