#playing

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing. ↗

— Jim Evans

#dad #during #him #i #nights

Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#altogether #anyone #avoiding #because #certain time

But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here. ↗

— Dorothy Dunnett

#always #because #chess #father #fondness

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#career #characters #childhood #elf #fantasies

That result at the French was a big break for me. I had been playing quite well up until that point but nobody really expected me to do well on clay - it was my worst surface. I had had some success on the clay but I was a set and a break up in the semi-final against Jausovec and maybe the enormity of the occasion got to me. ↗

— Jo Durie

#been #big #big break #break #break up

The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer. ↗

— Jo Durie

#because #been #body #carried #decision

I'm content. I want to have better success in the tournaments than I've had, but I know I'm playing well, so I'm happy with that. ↗

— David Duval

#content #had #happy #i #know

Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away. ↗

— Stephen Hopkins

#easier #gene #knew #knowing #made

If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very different. But it's really hard to do the accent. I tend to try and stay in it all day, which is the only way I can manage it. ↗

— Emily Blunt

#all day #america #american #day #different

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know? ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#band #down #goes #his way #horn