"One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three."
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"I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes."
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"I have the mentality that if you come in playing not to get hurt, that's when you're going to get hurt. So I play relentless."
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"The environment is not as 'cheap as chips', it's priceless and we all have a part to play in protecting it"
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"Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees."
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"Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'"
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"My music, it breathes. It's the mysticism of sound. I'm a sound seeker, and I'm enthralled with it, by what it can do to change the molecules and uplift people. They feel something when we play. I can't take authorship for that. I can take that I'm in service."
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"I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it."
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"Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3]"
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"I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast."
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"I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today."
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"If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty."
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"Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do."
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"To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones."
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"How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge."
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"O no, thy love though much, is not so great, It is my love that keeps mine eye awake, Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake. For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near."
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"Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing."
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"I have found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable reason is that good taste is a visible manifestation of human sensibility toward the world, environment, people."
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"Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself."
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"Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play."
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