"Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?"
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"I always stay out of the rehearsal room you know when they first come in. Then once they had chance to play a little bit, then I walk in. Because I've seen guys fall apart."
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"Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!"
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"To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute."
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"The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear."
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"I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play."
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"In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America."
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"I always wanted to play Lestrade of Scotland Yard 'cause he's a buffoon that gets to wear a uniform. I thought that would be fun."
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"One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Mötley Crüe could be the first band to play on the moon."
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"As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member"
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"Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses."
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"I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact."
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"It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid."
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"The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse."
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"Everybody who plays me plays me so hard because they always want to beat me."
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"I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies."
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"I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty."
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"You may be sick of what you did the first half of your life, but you don't just have to walk around and play golf or do nothing... It's not like fifty is the new thirty. It's like fifty is the new chapter."
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"The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket."
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"In television, and especially in a situation comedy, you kind of play yourself, or at least the essence of yourself."
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