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Peter Shaffer

"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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"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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"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."

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"I would like to play with electronic keyboards again."

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"Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel."

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

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

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Amber Hurdle

"If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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"If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more."

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"If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting."
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"I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life."
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"I was an accomplice in my own frustration."
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