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"We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals."
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"When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down."
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"If that's the way the game is played, I don't want to play anymore."



"I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along."
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"I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version."


"I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience."


"The Sims is kind of an interesting case because we had all these expansion packs. We were able to incrementally add on and explore without invading the core dynamic or the core game play."
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"I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have."


"We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that."
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"I think I started out trying to be very objective about the flow of the play."


"I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do."
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"If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am."


"Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band."
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"Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well."


"There's another girl who was going to play Hilary Faye and luckily she wound up not doing it."
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"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."


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


"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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"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."
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