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It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.

Quote by Andy Partridge about pain

We'd play in places like The Roxy and The Red Cow and there'd be all these big show fights with people acting show aggression to us. Being from a little country town, it was really frightening.

Quote by Andy Partridge about city, country, being, people

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about heads, earth, rest, end

Americans play to win at all times, I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

Quote by George S. Patton about time, americans, hell, war, man

The last time I played a bad guy was in Black Books and it is always fun to play a bad guy, particularly if they are really smilingly nasty.

Quote by Simon Pegg about time, bad luck, bad, magic, books

When I was going over the script I thought, I'm not too old to play Carmen, which is the normal role I'd be cast in. When I was offered Leticia, I thought, I can't do that.

Quote by Elizabeth Pena about thinking, old, olderness

My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.

Quote by Mike Pence about education, bills, home

But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was.

Quote by Piper Perabo about education, school, perfection, contentment

We don't want a busybody government a boss that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.

Quote by Sonny Perdue about politics, heads, chance, work

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

Quote by Henry Van Dyke about life, celebrity, stars, chance, work, love, contentment

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about mistery, revelation, character, life

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about opinion, failure, night, success, work

A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about poetry, memory, thinking

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

Quote by James Maxwell Anderson about literature, heroism, tragedy

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold,...

Quote by Miles Franklin about friendship, state, mind, love

If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.

Quote by Gene Hackman about actors, celebrity

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple.

Quote by John Millington Synge about literature, good, good luck

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Quote by Louis Armstrong about music, good, good luck, bad luck, bad

The role that we play is life.

Quote by Louis Armstrong about life

A weak world a weak world. the rebellion is in me I withwraw into hell. in the hell of my own words. here, the last of the possible adventures which I can support without tearing myself apart, without breaking, without screaming. but I...

Quote by Angela Marinescu about world, hell, word