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"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"
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"Want to play baseball?' she asked. Shane's eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. "What?' "First base,' she said. "You're already there.' "I'm not running the bases.' "Well, you could at least steal second.' "Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you've gone and ruined it."
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"I held out a lead figurine of Hades-the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter.Nico hesitated. "I don't play that game anymore. It's for kids.""It's got four thousand attack power," I coaxed."Five thousand," Nico corrected. "But only if your opponent attacks first."I smiled. "Maybe it's okay to still be a kid once in a while."
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"That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier."
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"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."
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"If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up."
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"It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move."
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"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."
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"When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass."
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"Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well."
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"I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is."
History
"I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition."
Play
"I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange."
Ideas
"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds."
Music
"Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that."
Men
"They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it."
Dance
"It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
Life
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