"When you're going to play with dead things, do it during the daylight."
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"Never tempt fate. It plays for keeps."
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"I don't know WHEN I'll be big enough to play!"
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"Do you play football for Pittsburgh? Then why are you such a Steeler?!"
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"You just try to take it one day at a time, ... You step on the basketball floor and just play. It's fun. I'm comfortable with it."
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"I know how to play my guard spot, ... He can worry about the low post."
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"Depending on where you live, your threat is much different from the other person. If you ask a New Yorker today, because of the way the press plays it, he will say terrorism is his biggest fear. But for somebody living on a small island state, then it is climate change, the rise of the sea level, for his whole island may be washed away. If I go to southern Africa, they tell me it is HIV/AIDS and somewhere in Asia it is poverty. This is also why you will find it difficult to find agreements, because if you want someone to be concerned about your threat, then you should be concerned about his."
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"The young and dynamic and idealistic people in the square do not have the chance to organise themselves politically, to be able to follow through their dreams in six months time, to play an effective role in the future."
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"The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine."
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"I get to play a lot of hysterics."
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"To play Hillary Clinton? I'm kind of winging it. No, are you kidding me? I prepared obsessively. I mean, as much as I could in the time that I was given. Of course, with someone like Hillary Clinton, obviously, anything you want is on YouTube and at your fingertips there."
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"Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I go back and forth on that question."
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"The biggest change is I get to play my music for the people."
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"But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream."
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"We're just musically and rhythmically retarded. We play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that."
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"Harold Ramis really got my career going and was a friend for a long time. I was doing a play in L.A., and he came to see it a few times and recommended me to Ivan Reitman for Ghostbusters 2. Six months later, I quit real estate and was acting for good, and it was really because Harold took an interest in me and made a phone call and did stuff that people don't usually do, even if they like somebody."
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"If I had not lived the life I had lived and did not have the wife I have and the children I have, I would never know how to play that role [of Dr. Bedsloe], and I wouldn't have any of those qualities. It's a real example of how it is true that the camera catches everything. Even the stuff you're trying to hide."
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"I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors."
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"I don't want to play a laptop live if I'm just going to sit there, so it's also a problem of working at my movie theater job long enough to get money to get better equipment."
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"I'd like to play live, but the thing I do now with my synthesizers, almost everything is vocoder-driven."
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