Top 1200 Playing Together Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

When we started out in the U.K., there were songs that we made, we put them on the Internet, and we immediately started touring the U.K. We borrowed our friend's mum's car, and drove ourselves around for, like, a year playing gigs in pubs and tiny little venues. In that respect, we're pretty grass roots as a band. We've done all that together.

Playing live is one thing. Playing under a microscope is another.

For me, I just focus on playing, playing at a high level. And when you can't do that any longer, you've got to get off the train.

If you take text and image and you put them together, the multiple readings that are possible in either poetry or in something visual are reduced to one specific reading. By putting the two together, you limit the possibilities. Text and image don't always work together in the way music and song lyrics become part of each other.

Playing for England is a bonus, but playing for Liverpool is what I want to do.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

When you're playing a good character, you have an idea that you're playing the hero and the good guy. Actually, I think you're more stymied playing the good guy than you are the bad guy. As the bad guy, you have no inhibitions. Nothing stops you from doing what it is you feel you have to do. You do it because it's what's required.

I do love playing aristocrats, probably because it's so against type. So much more interesting than playing a version of yourself.

I want to be able to function and that's the conversation that I'm having now more than ever - playing vs. functioning while I'm finished playing.

When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. That's just the way it was.

Oh man, you miss it so much when you finish playing, especially when you play for most of your life. You miss just being a part of a team and being a part of the guys. So I definitely think producing brought that back for me. A bunch of people working together for a common goal.

What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen.

I've spent a lot of my career playing heroes, like Jared in 'The Pretender,' but playing part of a dysfunctional family is more interesting.

I'm not afraid of code. I mean, I understand how these things work. I thought that that was the one area where Estonia was playing on a level playing field.

In England, there is a tradition of playing on Saturday. But in Spain, I won the UEFA Cup with Valencia playing on Thursday and Sunday, which was just the same.

I'm not playing for the All-Star Game, I'm playing to win games.

I'm really attracted to playing strong, outspoken, sassy women. And I love playing characters who have a little bit of conflict or who can be controversial.

Even when I was at the top, playing in the Champions League final for Liverpool and playing at the World Cup for England, I've never let it go to my head.

For us Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp is bigger than the music. It is very much an experience that brings a lot of skills and discoveries about yourself together. In that respect, it also enables you to learn that being in a band is a lot tougher than sitting around and playing guitar in your bedroom.

I don't want anyone to think I don't love playing for England because playing for your country is the greatest thing a cricketer can do.

It's like the old thing: The parents stay together for the kids, but the kids know that you don't want to be together. The kids would rather you be happy - and separate - than together and miserable. I don't want my kid to grow up around two parents who just don't work.

When creativity melds together with global issues, I believe you can bring the world together.

I'd be the only disabled kid in the neighborhood playing football, and we're playing full contact, and I'd always manage to get open.

Every young kid growing up playing football dreams of playing in those big famous stadiums.

Well, I'm also like 23 and playing 16. So maybe when I'm 30 I'll be playing characters in their early 20s. I don't know.

If you are playing in the right conditions, there is always motivation to bowl fast. If you are playing in the wrong condition then you want to be a batsman.

That's another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it's as if things were coming together in my mind. It's like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it's it's like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

For me, playing is about playing with other people.

I started playing at six. I was at a school always playing football with my friends. But I was always bored at home. I asked my father if he could start me in a football team. He took me to a team called Rupel Boom, who were playing in the fourth division in Belgium, and I stayed there for four years.

As like as we (Super Junior and E.L.F.) started together, let's put up the end together.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

There's a difference between playing hurt and playing injured.

When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. Thats just the way it was.

I went from almost not playing in the NBA to playing on a championship team.

Playing with Paul Scholes is like playing with the light on.

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.

There are guys who want to be together, there are woman who want to be together, and there and men and women who want to be together.

It's always hard for me to put the pieces together when listening to a finished album that I was a part of writing and playing. There are so many memories wrapped up in each note and each song that it's hard not to constantly flash back to what made that musical event happen while listening.

It's not so much that I don't enjoy playing live - that's one of the best parts of playing music - it's that it's nerve-racking with 300, 500 people watching.

This world only brings things apart that come together, and brings things together that weren't together.

Playing four years of college, when you're playing for someone other than yourself, I think it makes it a lot more fun.

If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace.

My entire style of playing was built around somebody else playing guitar with me, a story that, on its own, sounds unfinished.

England is nice. I always said that if I was playing games for United consistently and playing well I'd have a chance of getting back in.

I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.

It's important that I'm always playing fresh and that I'm ready to go rather than just playing because I feel like I have to.

Playing away is just as exciting as playing at home.

When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

On the basis of being a woman, by playing an alien, I avoid playing someone's girlfriend here on Earth because that's a bit of a canker sore.

I like playing sport, and I like doing physical stuff. I like hiking and I like climbing and I like playing sport. I do a lot. But I don't like the term 'exercising.' I feel like with sport, you're playing games. But with exercise, you're literally just trying to stop yourself from dying too young. It's weird.

I became an actor because I enjoy playing a variety of different people rather than playing one person for the rest of my career.

I guess actually playing on the records and touring is a great forced practice regimen for me. And you learn a lot playing with people.

H2O it's a complicated, three-dimensional, charged object. And one can pack these things in many different ways, a little like playing the child's game of jacks, where those complicated little objects can be thrown together in all different ways.

You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.

Going forward, what I can accomplish, I always have seen myself playing in the playoffs, playing deep, and winning. I want to be part of that and feel that.

When you're playing Marilyn Monroe, you have a responsibility to look and sound like her that you don't when you're playing people who weren't ever in the public eye.

I was told before that one of the hardest jumps to do, painlessly, is the one from playing clubs into playing arenas. I am completely aware of that now.

If I was playing for my local club I'd want to play in exactly the same way as if I was playing for England and, if that ever changes, it's probably time to stop.

When I play, I'm playing for myself and I'm playing for my family too.

I just want to do the best I can, which means playing for the England full side one day and carry on playing well for Everton.