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

"When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass."

"I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong."

"If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric."

"An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens."
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"You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me."

"And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy."

"Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right."

"They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all."

"I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England."
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