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One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from the...

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It's tough and it should be tough - it should never be easy to be given millions of pounds to make a...

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My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very swe...

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Estragon: You see, you feel worse when I'm with you. I feel better alone, too.Vladmir: Then why do y...

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I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few moments ...

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Samuel BeckettKrapp's Last Tape & Embers

Cascando"why not merely the despaired ofoccasion ofwordshedis it not better abort than be barrenthe ...

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Henry: I usen't to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow c...

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Ada: And why life? (Pause.) Why life, Henry? (Pause.) Is there anyone about?Henry: Not a living soul...

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How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.

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Samuel BeckettKrapp's Last Tape & Embers

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. B...

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Samuel BeckettKrapp's Last Tape & Embers

The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less al...

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I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the e...

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With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. Tha...

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I've been playing on Christmas for the last 10, 11, 12 years. So just got to get up early with the b...

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I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.

I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where e...

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Witchcraft is fun. It offers us a chance to play, to act silly, to let the inner child come out. Out...

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StarhawkThe Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out...

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One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the i...

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T. S. EliotThe Family Reunion

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you p...

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The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep le...

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It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

...love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on ...

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Tennessee WilliamsA Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same st...

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It's cool now to play golf.

There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-l...

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I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and p...

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Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautiou...

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The notion that inspired play (even when audacious, offensive, or obscene) enhances rather than dimi...

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Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from...

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Tom RobbinsJitterbug Perfume

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

When I was 20, the idea of having a play on anywhere was just beyond my dreams.

We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall...

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Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.

I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.

I spend a little time every day to play sports.

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius onl...

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I would love to play alongside Wayne Rooney. He does the running of two or three players and makes a...

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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real...

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An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that at...

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You say your life is your own. But can you dare to ignore the chance that you are taking part in a g...

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Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain...

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Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it's not until...

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...if the actor gave his performance without knowing that he was in a play, then his tears would be ...

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Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

World is a divine play. At the beginning and at the end, we are the same.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty...

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...for nothing is more boring than being forced to play.

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Angela CarterNights at the Circus

I always play women I would date.

Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.

To amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusem...

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Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something ha...

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Arthur MillerDeath of a Salesman

When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing th...

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You always play it open, don’t you?” he asked.“I’ve never noticed you doing otherwise.”“I thought I ...

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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

She wanted me to remember that pleasure is political--for the capacity to relax and play renews the ...

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Bell hooksremembered rapture: the writer at work

The heterosexual emotions of young children can find a natural, wholesome and innocent outlet with o...

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How come we play war and not peace?""Too few role models.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-...

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If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they...

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But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the produ...

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Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to th...

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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

This sort of information gathering is precisely what we call play. And the important function of pla...

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Carl SaganDragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an...

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The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I f...

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Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing bree...

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How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound togethe...

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I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.

You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult r...

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Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that's th...

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All drama is about lies. All drama is about something that’s hidden. A drama starts because a situat...

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Play hard. Play, play, play like your life depends on it. Because it does.

Still, he was pleased to know that he could recall so much of the play and passed the rest of the jo...

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Diana GabaldonThe Scottish Prisoner

He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.

The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry...

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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all...

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If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the new...

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A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

Knowing it--knowing it's true is one thing, but believing what you know... well, there's the tough p...

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I don't care about movies. I tend to play badminton once a week.

In childbirth grief begins.

Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.

Old loves are dropped when new ones come

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, ...

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I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor an...

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