"I've always been lucky enough to just play tennis, so I never actually had a job when I was growing up."
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"Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it."
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"Everybody always talks about the pressure of playing at Wimbledon, how tough it is, but the people watching make it so much easier to play."
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"I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that."
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"I'd like to play bass like Bootsy Collins. I'm serious. That would be my dream."
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"Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals."
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"In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin."
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"Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office."
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"I came to AS Roma to play in the Champions League"
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"If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes."
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"For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else."
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". . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to be somehow representative of black American life, and I didn't have any women in there. And I knew that wasn't going to work."
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"As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites."
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"When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his His Largeness and Laws."
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"The impulse to write the poem, that impulse is a great dramatic impulse. But hell, anybody could write a play. I do know this: all writers are not dramatists. You may be a great writer, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're a dramatist. Very few people have done both."
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"The provision of basic material needs is not sufficient to make minority groups and indigenous peoples feel they are truly part of the greater national entity. For that they have to be confident that they too have an active role to play in shaping the destiny of the state that demands their allegiance."
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"There's never been a film with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the center released in theaters. Ever! One does not exist. You've only seen tele-films and stage plays about him. Yet, we have big screens biopics about all kinds of people. So, I think it's only right that there be a full-length feature about Dr. King. I don't think there could be enough of them, but there should be at least one. So, here it is!"
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"The thing I'd miss most is the feeling when acting is going well, when you start a play and you end the night and you look back and go, "What just happened?""
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"Sometimes the characters that I'm most resistant to are the ones that I find the most satisfying to play, because you have to dig deeper and you have to find different parts of yourself that are not necessarily the first thing you access and that's fun and interesting."
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"If you get caught at some crucial point and somebody tells you that your doctrine doesn't make sense - you're ready for him. You tell him there's something above sense. That here he must not try to think, he must feel. He must believe. Suspend reason and you can play it deuces wild."
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