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"It is always the psychic and social grounds, brought into play by each medium or technology, that readjust the balance of the hemispheres and of human sensibilities into equilibrium with those grounds."
"In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws into play his most secret life he becomes an experience to himself."
"The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!"
"The majority of the time I'm at home with my family, I play football three times a week."
"Be sure to play "Blessed Lord" tonight - play it real pretty."
"They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports."
"Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night."
"Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty."
"You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan."
"Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family."
"I like to play good girls more because I play bad ones all the time!"
"Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary."
"First I'm going to thank Don because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech they play him out with the music and I want him to know that everything I value most in our lives you've given me."
"You about to play an opponent who is either bigger, stronger, faster or more experienced than you. Is there any hope at all? Absolutely, because one factor is in your favor: You are the Underdog!"
"Are you familiar with that play? In fact, we're almost living it!"
"I would love to be able to play anywhere, but to me the sweet spot is clubs and theaters, just because I feel like you lean in to tell a joke. You don't back up. Comedy lives in that area. I've played amphitheaters, big clubs, and pool halls, and the most fun rooms hold anywhere from 500 to 2,000 people. That intimacy is where comedy really lives."
"It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in The Practice than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both."
"You remember the [remarks] you made in 1994 about, 'I think I can guard you, I can shut you down, I would love to play against you?' Well, you're about to get your chance."
"You need to play to win. But you also need to win ... to play."
"To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers."
