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"Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess."
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"Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess."
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"Chess is the gymnasium of the mind."
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"Chess is intellectual gymnastics."
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"Chess is not for timid souls."
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"Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though."
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"Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won."
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"I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country."
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"Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways."
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"Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic."
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"The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that."
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"I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975."
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"I love playing other people's work. I love acting."
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"Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess."
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"I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing."
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"I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me."
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"I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally."
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"I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work."
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"If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently."
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"I write, but I also act."
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"I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work."
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