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Mary Lou Williams

"He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously."

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Akshay Vasu

"I get to play a killer next."

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Akshay Vasu

"I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person."

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Akshay Vasu

"Lyricists play with words."

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Akshay Vasu

"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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Akshay Vasu

"I never play without my cape."

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Akshay Vasu

"That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed."

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Akshay Vasu

"I don't think I want to play a teenager anymore."

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Akshay Vasu

"Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process."

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Akshay Vasu

"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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Akshay Vasu

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

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Mary Lou Williams
"Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home."

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Mary Lou Williams
"When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'"

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Mary Lou Williams
"One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family."

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Mary Lou Williams
"Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night."

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Mary Lou Williams
"Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper."

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Mary Lou Williams
"He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously."

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Mary Lou Williams
"I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room."

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