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"After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it."
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"No, I tell you what I like is having the play close after a decent run and looking back on it and saying, yes, I did that, and wasn't it wonderful? Because while you're doing it, it is really tough. It is so hard."
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"I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!"
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"I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl."
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"Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to."
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"I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book me."
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"There was a report that used to come out back in those days, I don't know if it was the Gavin Report or something like that. And they said, no matter what McGuire comes out with next, we're not gonna play it."
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"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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"Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni."
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"I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars."
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"I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict."
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"So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well."
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"The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero."
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"So it was good for me to play a likable person and it was just an amazing situation to be in."
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"I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record."
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"For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again."
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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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"Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process."
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"I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all the songs on it. There's some finger picking on it."
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"I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff."
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"Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything."
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"Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world."
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"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 taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me."
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