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"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."
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"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"

"All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in."
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"Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni."

"Want to play baseball?' she asked. Shane's eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. "What?' "First base,' she said. "You're already there.' "I'm not running the bases.' "Well, you could at least steal second.' "Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you've gone and ruined it."

"In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues."
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"I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it."
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"I think I started out trying to be very objective about the flow of the play."
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"Starting the Day- Another chance to be new again. How many of us still wish for that? To be your own sunrise. To awaken like a prayer -both solemn and joyful at still being alive."

"Dream young. Don't settle for old - for to be old is to be superstitious and without curiosity and always questioning your faith. And be ferocious in your dreaming - run like a sun's explosion, and skip across bluing waves, and dance upon tips of swan feathers."

"No, you become a man when you first decide to put away the things of childhood, the talk of childhood, and the thoughts of childhood. You decide because you cannot be treated as both a man and a boy. Because you are either one or the other, but you are not both . . ."

"I travel because life is short, and I will not wait for fear of death or sanctuary to become a prison of my own making."

"Walk with me now into this very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is surely God-taken."

"How much better does being alive get then sitting beside a warm fire amidst a misty rainy morning."

"Don't spoil kids by trying to buy them off, to buy their time. Kids aren't stupid. They know a bribe when they see one. They want a parent not a payoff."

"My God, what a sensation to be an atom in the scheme of such grandiosity. The allurement, the jazz, and the physics of it all . . ."
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