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Ray Bradbury Author
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"We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms."

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Regina King Actress
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"My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality."

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Serena Williams Tennis Player
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"Honestly, I could get in a car accident today and never play tennis again, and then I wouldn't have anything to fall back on. But fortunately enough, I do."

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"Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot."

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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Spiritual Leader
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"Make the whole life a game. There is no purpose there is no aim, nothing. Just take it lightly, easily. Play the game. that is worship, which is celebration."

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Robert Kennedy Politician
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"The gross national product includes air pollution and advertising for cigarettes, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors, and jails for the people who break them ... It does not allow for the health of our families, the quality of thier education, or the joy of their play."

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Roma Downey Actress/Producer
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"I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between."

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Stella Adler Actress, Director
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"Life in the theatre isn't necessarily when you get money from performing. It isn't when you sign a contract. It isn't even when you are in a play. It's when you understand it. If you understand it, you'll know why you want to act."

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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
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"Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football."

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Geddy Lee Musician
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"I can't remember the first song I learned to play on bass, but the first song I learned to play on guitar was 'For Your Love' by the Yardbirds. That kind of was the beginning for me. I thought it was a great song and I loved the open chord progression at the beginning of that song."

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Nelson Mandela Political Leader
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"I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything."

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