"You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?"
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"The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose."
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"GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play"
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"When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't."
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"When the Williams sisters play tennis, it gets pretty hot. When they start grunting, I'm in."
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"You've heard of plug-and-play. This is plug, unplug and play. It's so simple to use, it's unbelievable."
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"I could never be a woman, 'cause I'd just stay home and play with my breasts all day."
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"We're not like a nostalgia act, or the normal classic rock act - we're a really good musical organization, ... You're going to hear some blues, some jazz, a little of everything. The guys in the band are great musicians. When we play, we're there for real. It's not about posing, strutting in tights, that kind of stuff. It's all about music, and I've always respected my audience that way."
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"We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent."
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"With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?"
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"Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries."
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"Words are the instruments you play to the song of your ideas, you're just playing covers."
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"I think we are in a time where the youth play such a huge role. It's up to us to go the extra mile to vote and raise our voices."
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"You've got to play with pride and guts."
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"It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do."
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"Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don't have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike."
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"I do well to interpret scripts to the best of my ability so even if I'm given a monster to play a love scene with, I will."
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"I only know how to play one role: me."
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"When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings."
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"Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from the clichés about the three-act play - structure, development."
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