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

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

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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."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

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"I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards."

Dick Dale, American Musician

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"I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose."

Roy Wood, English Musician

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"I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play."

Joe E. Lewis, American Comedian

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"Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

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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."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that."

John Entwistle, English Musician

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"I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit."

Bobby McFerrin, American Musician

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"I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs."

Steve Forbert, American Musician

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"I don't wanna play Karen. I just don't. I've kind of done this."

Selma Blair, American Actress

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"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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"We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children."

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