"He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities."
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"Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture."
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"Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays."
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"I really would love to play a hannibal lector or PSYCO type character."
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"In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst."
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"I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage."
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"If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house."
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"What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting."
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"Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love."
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"A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't."
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"That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground."
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"Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself."
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"One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack."
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"Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly."
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"People recognize me all the time now, and there's lots of autograph hunting and smiling. But then I get to play gigs, which are amazing. It's a good job."
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"Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important."
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"I play Rock 'n' Roll, that's what I do."
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"Can we get back to how we’re going to kill Nick? And what’s this about a dead body? You’d better start talking quick, Ivy, ’cause I’m not going to play hide-and-seek with a dead guy in my trunk. I did that in college, and I’m not going to do it again.” A smile quirked Ivy’s mouth. “Really?” she asked, and I flushed."
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"Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play."
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"I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill."
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