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"I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen."
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"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"
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Personal Development
"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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"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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"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
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"Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway."
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"Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead."
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"I think I started out trying to be very objective about the flow of the play."
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"I never saw the play, although I heard it was good."
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"After you play a part, you think of it as your own."
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"I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist."
African
"The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear."
Fear
"I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money."
Business
"Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking."
People
"You've got to change with the public's taste."
Change
"Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping."
Music
"The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it."
Music
"I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy."
Day
"If I could read it, I could play it."
Play
"The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things."
Respect
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