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The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop acc...

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The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity ...

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You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry ...

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It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, g...

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Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very i...

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It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I...

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My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when...

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In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has...

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JACKYou're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax.GWENDOLENOh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for...

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest

Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part.

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

Child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who...

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My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked clas...

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DYER. (Sits down) There was nothing that I recall save that the Sunne was a Round flat shining Disc ...

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And I was a Child again, watching the bright World. But the Spell broke when at this Juncture some G...

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My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.'

Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then ...

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Life must be lived as play.

My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive aro...

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It is a happy talent to know how to play.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.

Play is just another version of work

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Ray KurzweilThe Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

SNEER. But, what the deuce, is the confidante to be mad too?PUFF. To be sure she is. The confidante ...

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Ideally, the pursuit of truth is said to be at the heart of the intellectual's business, but this cr...

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Life is more fun if you play games.

When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Tou...

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Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors...

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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, resp...

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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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