"It is better to play than do nothing."
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"I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't be contained by life: Asian life, European life, certainly black life. My plays are about love, honor, duty, betrayal - things humans have written about since the beginning of time."
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"I had this urge to play the game of football because so many people said I couldn't do it."
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"Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing it to be something sensuous . . . the viewer's lips slightly wet as the scene plays out. Violence is nothing like that. It is lightning fast, chaotic, and totally intangible."
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"My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer."
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"I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play interesting characters. That's really it."
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"Out, damned spot! Out, I say!"
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"I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was doing was trying to play backwards... It's one of those mad accidents, you can't learn it."
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"I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window."
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"I would say my best decision I ever made was to pursue my dream and give it my all. Thankfully, I have not yet made really bad decisions, I'm the kind of person to play it on the safe side."
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"I'd rather play lacrosse six days a week and football on the seventh."
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"It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play."
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"The world cannot hold onto you, for the world is not sentient. The world doesn't have a mind nor does it have desires; it is only your mind's objectivisation. It is your own mind's play which imagines that an object-call it the mind or whatever-can hold onto you. It is the idea you have of who you are that is holding onto its own fearful projections as the mind. Leave all of this and remain as the pure, joyous Self."
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"The most important part of my religion is to play guitar."
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"You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass."
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"Now I don't get upset by unpleasant things, I don't play the victim, and I'm always ready to come to terms with life."
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"We must nevertheless present all possible interpretations for each observation, so that competing theories can be formulated and defended. In science, as elsewhere, intellectual inertia, the fashions of the moment, the weight of institutions, and authoritarianism are always to be feared. Heresies play an essential role by keeping our minds argumentative and alert."
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"Joy is the wild card of life; it supersedes every other formula for success. If you can find a way to create joy, you can rise beyond all external factors. If you can play at whatever you are doing, you are the master of your life."
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"The music is not part of this planet in a sense that the spirit of it is about happiness. Most musicians play earth things about what they know, but I found out that they are mostly unhappy and frustrated, and that creeps over into their music."
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"It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales."
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