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"Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess."
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"Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though."

"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."

"I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country."

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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."

"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."

"If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently."

"I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic."

"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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