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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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"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."

"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"

"I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version."

"But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can."

"So it was good for me to play a likable person and it was just an amazing situation to be in."
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"I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play."
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"Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?"

"That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things."

"I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it."

"I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad."

"As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release."

"It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before."

"Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country."

"The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done."

"When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid."

"So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life."
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