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Vivien Leigh

"Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play."

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"Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play."

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"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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"I held out a lead figurine of Hades-the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter.Nico hesitated. "I don't play that game anymore. It's for kids.""It's got four thousand attack power," I coaxed."Five thousand," Nico corrected. "But only if your opponent attacks first."I smiled. "Maybe it's okay to still be a kid once in a while."

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

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"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."

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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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"I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along."

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Asa Don Brown

"When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down."

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"I don't get called very often to play innocents."

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"My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules."

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"We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a duo; and we decided we wouldn't have any rehearsal."

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