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We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy R. D. LAING John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of s...
MADISON SMARTT BELL I came to John Fahey late in the game. I was completely disarmed and undone by it -- I didn't really...
STEPHEN BROWER
When I sit down and play guitar, I melt into the instrument. I can play for hours by myself. Playing... ALEX LIFESON I think there's pressure when you come in after a great coach like John Miller. But it's not pressur...
ANDY HEDRICK
When I first arrived in America, the very first place I came was California, and I rented a house in... OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN I'm used to playing literal story lines and dealing with people's emotions. I had a story where I wa...
DEIDRE HALL When they play for their country, they put something more. And Davis Cup is different from playing i...
HANS GILDEMEISTER When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.
FRANKIE AVALON And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I ...
BIBLE I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tabl...
JAY RYAN I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a be...
BYRON KATIE I have been drawing since I was very little and I have been playing hockey for five years.
BRITANI DUNBAR I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When th...
KAJAL AGGARWAL I put myself through college playing pool.
WALTER ALSTON I love that way dance music can put you in a trance.
CHET FAKER What is it about the blank page that makes me want to hurl myself into a game of solitaire? I ask my...
JENNIFER GILMORE Music That Brings, The Meaning Of our Life.
Music That Shows, The Light From Our Soul.
Photography is a demanding action sport. The light can change so quickly. I often find myself sprint... STEVEN PINKER There are days when we all fall in a solitude trance while hearing a sad country song playing in the...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself.
ERIK SATIE
I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself. VENERABLE BEDE
It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that da... TED DEKKER One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which...
FRITZ KREISLER
If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go o... THOMAS J. WATSON I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sist...
BAILEE MADISON
I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself. SUZANNE COLLINS When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I...
BALTASAR KORMAKUR
When I was doing 'L.A. Law' it was really important to me to play very uplifting, positive character... BLAIR UNDERWOOD
I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers... FRANZ SCHUBERT
Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I... ADAM BEACH
I was very shy when I was younger. But I did have a terrible temperament. I would get angry very qui... JEREMY RENNER
I have a very high expectation for everything I do. And when I go out and compete, I expect myself t... COLIN KAEPERNICK I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel...
TAYLOR COLE We're in a valley, surrounded by mountains, and the playing field gets dark very quickly in the fall...
DARREN ALLEN I was just a very emotional player. I wore my emotions on my sleeve. I pretty much told you how I fe...
GARY CLARK I think his prairie paintings are his finest work. He put everything he had into them. It was a kind...
WALT REED I had a lot of trouble with the language when I first came to America. I have put myself into some r...
MARCELO FERREIRA
If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just... THOMAS J. WATSON
I write most of my songs to beats. I play around on guitar, but not enough to where I can compose my... KEHLANI I think any kind of win is encouraging. We've kind of played up and down all season - play one good ...
DAN FAVREAU
I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawin... MICHAEL CRICHTON A lot has changed in the last year, but the game of basketball has remained the same. I put myself i...
MICHAEL FINLEY If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he...
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade sch...
JACK RAMSAY
When I'm drawing, I'm drawing with the light, being completely open and creative. I can'... CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN
I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to f... ANGELINA JOLIE
When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of ye... JACKSON BROWNE
Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves dire... CORY DOCTOROW I urge special interest groups to put emotions aside and refrain from making baseless accusations.
CHARLES SIEBERT I like playing with light and shade. I like saying awful things in very pretty ways.
HOZIER
I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressu... JEREMY LIN Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way ...
TIESTO
The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play. REGGIE JACKSON When I play music, I realize that it filters emotions. I believe that peoples' voices are expres...
HIROMI UEHARA I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rh...
JIAH KHAN
I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try ... ANGELINA JOLIE
I put myself into character for my songs. MICHELLE BRANCH My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me i...
TONY IOMMI Pulse lasers allow the sending of very bright light very far, very quickly.
BRUCE BETTS Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and lo...
TARA BRACH Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.
HARMONY KORINE I felt very comfortable about myself when I was much heavier. I feel much better about myself from b...
JEFF GARLIN I like playing characters with as many emotions as possible. I'd love to play a really crazy per...
ELLE FANNING
I felt I came back rather quickly from being ill and didn't give myself the time to reflect. DELTA GOODREM
For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections. PEACE PILGRIM
For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the
reflections. PILGRIMS When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That ...
KARL MALONE While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.
DARIO FO
When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out. SADE ADU
To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put int... HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character name... WILLIAM GIBSON Fear drags me into the slums of the emotions. But when I move into love, the penthouse of emotions, ...
COLLEEN LAUKKA
I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There'... SARAH MCLACHLAN We've been waiting for John to flip the switch on for a while. Hopefully, the light will stay on.
CLAD SLONIKER I was heavily into Nirvana and I still am, but when I was 23 I got disillusioned by music. Then I ju...
JAMES MCCARTNEY The carnival was the predecessor to the burlesque world-this all tied together, the psychic, the hyp...
ANTON LAVEY I don't feel when I'm writing that I'm drawing from any other writer, but of course I mu...
CHARLES MCCARRY I'm a very happy-go-lucky lover of all mankind as a person in real life. So when I play a darker...
DOUG JONES The political will is there. The need is very real. And the urge to help constituents directly and q...
ERIC UELAND
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before... ISAAC NEWTON I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I beg...
GYORGY LIGETI The light from you is like I am being pulled into a death trap. When you start to dim the light, I s...
MEG MCFEY
There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion. HAVELOCK ELLIS I've just got to draw from this and try to play this well when I'm playing tournament after tourname...
CHRIS GUCCIONE I tried to be as aggressive as I can and try to get into the match very quickly,
MARAT SAFIN [That's lofty company coming from the veteran coach, who's put over 100 players into the college ran...
WALLACE DAVIS I feel light-years better than I did last year coming into the season, ... I think they figured ever...
BARBARA TURNER Each day I play music it is like my last breat of hope, and while I am playing the music I love I di...
MATT BROWN I started playing poker in 2003 during my pregnancy, to distract myself from my awful morning sickne...
CHERYL HINES I compose and he doesn't compose. I cannot admire the composition of his music, only a few songs are...
YU ZHILIANG While Richard was listening to music in the basement, I was out playing baseball and football, and p...
KAREN CARPENTER I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I be...
SEAN SCULLY
For a while, I was drawing on good paper, but now I've gone back to the bad stuff. I put matte m... JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT I want to play the game hard. I want to ram it down your throat, put you into left field when I'...
BRYCE HARPER I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very ear...
DANIEL SUAREZ
For a while, I was working on transcribing rap lyrics and then converting them into rhythmic pattern... JASON MORAN The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It's li...
BEN DANIELS
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... 
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... 
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... 
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... 
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... 
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... 
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. 
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. 
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ... 
When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b... 
The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi... 
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ... 
I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm... 
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa... 
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. 
You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw... 
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... 
The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ... 
Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my... 
As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot... 
When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. 
My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. 
I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop... 
I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al... 
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ... 
Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. 
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. 
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. 
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. 
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte... 
Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else. 
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. 
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i... 
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir... 
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. 
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y... 
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. 
With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ... 
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi... 
Old friends are best. 
They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side. 
Rome was not built in one day. 
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. 
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. 
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ... 
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I... 
I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ... 
You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part. 
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress... 
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. 
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. 
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do. 
I can never consent to being dictated to. 
There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles! 
When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regim... 
You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what yo... 
I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the '... 
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the pre... 
There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism. 
It's a challenge to grow professionally and move up the corporate ladder when you're not rec... 
I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is ra... 