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"Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess."
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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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"After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired."
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"I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting."
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"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."
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"I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt."
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"Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player."
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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 mental torture."
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"Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess."
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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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"For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me."
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"I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work."
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"The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well."
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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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"It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material."
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"I write, but I also act."
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"I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work."
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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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"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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