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Joe Mantegna

"Whenever you're going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an image of what that person is and who he should be and so you really have to do your homework."

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"Whenever you're going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an image of what that person is and who he should be and so you really have to do your homework."

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Asa Don Brown

"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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Asa Don Brown

"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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Asa Don Brown

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

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Asa Don Brown

"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."

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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."

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Asa Don Brown

"I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working."

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Asa Don Brown

"The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met."

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Asa Don Brown

"It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play."

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Asa Don Brown

"I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty."

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Asa Don Brown

"What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion."

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"I did plays and movies and whatever all over the place."
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"You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork."
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"I've loved it, but I have a wife and two children."
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"I reached that day that I always thought might happen, where I say to myself I don't want to do this anymore. I'm looking for some stability. I want to stay home."
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"I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can."
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"But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways."
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"There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers."
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"For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next."
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"But what I will do is I'll acknowledge it and if it can be of any help the fact that I do acknowledge it then maybe other people will benefit from it because I do have somewhat of a public forum being in the line of work I am."
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