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  • Wallace Stevens The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Alex Cox The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • C. Everett Koop The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Bobby Orr The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that's missing today.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bun E. Carlos The last thing you want to do is play a long gig on a hot night, pass out, and wind up in a hospital emergency room.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • Honoré de Balzac The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Billy Beane The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Beth Henley The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Stephen Nachmanovitch The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
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  • Bob Newhart The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Nancy Lopez The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
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  • George Bernard Shaw The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
    New Statesman (6 May 1950)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Roger Simon The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
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  • Alexander Woollcott The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.
    Alexander Woollcott
    American critic and commentator (0 - 1943)
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  • B. D. Wong The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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