"The plays I remember are the plays I made a mistake."
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"I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space."
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"Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be part of it. I want to lead an orchestra with excellent musicians. I want to play music which draws pictures of the world and its space"
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"I think actors go along a continuum from Simon Callow down to kind of Ross Kemp, and I like to think of myself as the Ross Kemp of comedy. He's very good in 'East Enders' because he plays a version of himself. I think I can play a version of myself - that's about all I can do."
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"Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it."
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"For artists like me, I think the times that just say the 80's alone, you didn't have to worry about getting twenty-five thousand Facebook followers. You didn't have to worry about every club, every venue you play, where the venues say well you know can you put up this video, put up that Facebook, put up... Nowadays it's really like you just can't be a musician alone."
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"I was really excited to try 3D and play with it really, again, experiment formally with that extra dimension."
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"Messi. 86 goals in calendar year and still 3 games to play! Best to ever play the game in my opinion just edges Maradona."
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"One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it."
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"The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part."
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"Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows."
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"What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the form of a paradox: a purposeful purposeless or a purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmation of life--not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and one’s desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord."
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"If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser."
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"She waited for me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the breadcrumb tail until it dead-ended into her."
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"We are engaged here in the most important pusuit in history. The search for meaning. What is What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person?How did we come to be, and wha will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules this game, and how might we best play it?"
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"I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl."
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"Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing . . . . Nobody can play guitar like that"
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"Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?"
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"It was great to play for a live audience on a stage."
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"I still like to play games that have a beginning, an end and a story."
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