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"I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me."
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"I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming."

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

"But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great."
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"Some of the onus falls on us to make ourselves available for the ball, because we need to play inside-out. That's when we're at our best."
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"There's another girl who was going to play Hilary Faye and luckily she wound up not doing it."
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"Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people."

"Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation."

"Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though."

"Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense."

"For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control."

"I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else."

"On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches."

"We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre."
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