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159 quotesLet dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.
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Philip Dormer Stanhope
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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Critics and Criticism
John Steinbeck
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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part
Teams and Teamwork
Casey Stengel
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The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
Approval
Casey Stengel
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Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.
Embarrassment
Lynn Swann
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In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
Theater
J. M. Synge
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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
Competition
Fran Tarkenton
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Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
Childhood
William M. Thackeray
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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
Work
Mark Twain
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
Socializing and Socialism
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.
Work
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All work and no play makes one the wealthiest man in the cemetery.
Cemeteries
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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.
Teams and Teamwork
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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.
Life and Living
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My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.
Opinions
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Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.
Advice
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
Speech
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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?
Participation
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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Age and Aging
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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
Passion
Voltaire
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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
History and Historians
Voltaire
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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
Success
Denis Waitley
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Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
Danger
Sir Hugh Walpole
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We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
Competition
Bill Walsh
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You play the way you practice.
Practice
Pop Warner
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun