"We are near 2010….2010!! Yet race, sex and religion still play a major role in a hate driven society. For the love of the future and humanity….let’s wake up."
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"There is a problem on the so-called commercial stage in New York. The price of a ticket is exorbitant, and there are no longer original productions possible, apparently, on the commercial stage. They are all plays that were taken from either England or smaller theaters, off-Broadway theaters, and so on. The one justification there used to be for the commercial theater was that it originated everything we had, and now it originates nothing. But the powers that be seem perfectly content to have it that way. They don't risk anything anymore, and they simply pick off the cream."
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"The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out."
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". . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film."
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"The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty with the set, which required too much effort to move around. Having gotten the benefit of seeing it done once, I wanted to work on the script, to make it sharper and more pointed."
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"'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law."
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"I like to hide behind the characters I play."
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"It's been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain."
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"I think if you've never been pregnant, you can over play pregnant and you can do a lot of different things with pregnant."
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"To see an older woman play a little boy on stage completely blasted open my perception to what it meant to act. That was it for me."
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"I represent the Port of Philadelphia, and I know firsthand the important role that ports play in the national and global economy. I have also seen how simple accidents can have devastating impacts on the port system."
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"I'm so grateful that I can play and that I can execute what I hear in my head, because that's the tricky part."
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"When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song."
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"I play Beethoven and Bach. At the same time, Biggie is my dog."
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"I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so I understand where that comes from."
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"It's just a huge boost for us to have one extra playmaker on our defense. He makes so many impact plays and changes the game a lot."
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"It's easy to actually get the ink on the page, but somehow I've gotta find a way to play this. And I have to find a way to emotionally survive playing this."
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"In Australia, kids play in American accents."
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"The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut."
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"When I play stuff for my wife she'll be like, "No, not that song. No way.""
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