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• When those closest to us respond to events differently than we do, when they seem to see the same scene as part of a different play, when they say things that we could not imagine saying in the same circumstances, the ground on which we stand seems to tremble and our footing is suddenly unsure.

  Deborah Tannen

  Events, Different, Imagine

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• It sometimes looks as though woman would not be woman unless man insisted upon it, since she tends so markedly to be just a human being when away from men, and only on their approach does she begin to play her required role.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Women, Doe, Roles

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• There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.

  Edith Hamilton

  People, Theater, Periods

  Edith Hamilton (1957). “The Roman Way to Western Civilization”

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• The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn't look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.

  Uta Hagen

  Character, Looks, Actors

  Uta Hagen (1991). “Challenge For The Actor”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• It is as dangerous for people unaccustomed to handling words and unacquainted with their technique to tinker about with these heavily-charged nuclei of emotional power as it would be for me to burst into a laboratory and play about with a powerful electromagnet or other machine highly charged with electrical force.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Powerful, Emotional, People

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• There's power to: and everyone should have that, but everyone doesn't. Power to play Bach, or tennis, or boccie if you like. And there's power over; and no one should have that, but people do.

  Marilyn French

  Power, Should Have, People

  Marilyn French (2013). “The Bleeding Heart: A Novel”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train of thought. They drove me distracted while I was having influenza, gazing at me with large eyes and saying: O Sylvia, you are so ill, you'll soon be dead. And who will feed us then? Feed us now!

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Memories, Cat, Eye

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• I've come close to matching the feeling of that night in 1944 in music, when I first heard Diz and Bird, but I've never got there. . . . I'm always looking for it, listening and feeling for it, though, trying to always feel it in and through the music I play everyday.

  Miles Davis

  Night, Bird, Feelings

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• And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows what to do all the time, God, she wears clothes well.

  Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  Beautiful, Golf, Phones

  Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Brian Dauth (2008). “Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Interviews”, p.162, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.

  Aphra Behn

  Wise, Men, Thinking

  Aphra Behn (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)”, p.273, Delphi Classics

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• Our times are obsessed with finding fulfillment, so there are times when some people try too hard, and there are people who want to have the newest feelings just as there are those who want to have the latest model car. You can't play at love any more than you can be proud of your humility, or add water to your perfume and have it smell the same, but men and women both have been known to try.

  Merle Shain

  Humility, Men, Smell

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according to the testimony of every sort of manager, the play of all others which can invariably be depended on to fill a theater.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Drama, Tragedy, Theater

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• Some people have their marriages annulled, which means they never existed. Boy, talk about denial! What do you say when people see your wedding album? 'Oh that was just some play I was in.

  Carol Leifer

  Mean, Boys, People

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• in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound, than their actions in life, and no structure of concrete or stone can contain them.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Death, Children, Profound

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• It is tempting to think of your husband-to-be as just another bridal accessory. It may be easier for him to play along with this too. After all, you don't expect your shoes or your beaded bag to help you make decisions.

  Mimi Pond

  Husband, Thinking, Shoes

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• we sometimes forget the influence of action upon thought. ... Smile, whistle, sing, play the part you want to be until you become the part you play.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Happiness, Want, Action

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• while the executive should give every possible value to the information of the specialist, no executive should abdicate thinking on any subject because of the expert. The expert's information or opinion should not be allowed automatically to become a decision. On the other hand, full recognition should be given to the part the expert plays in decision making.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Business, Thinking, Hands

  Mary Parker Follett (1977). “Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett”, Buccaneer Books

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• Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Order, Giving, Roles

  Margaret J. Wheatley (1994). “Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe”, Berrett-Koehler Pub

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• If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven.

  Angela Thirkell

  Joy, Heaven, Leaving

  Angela Thirkell (2012). “High Rising: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.106, Hachette UK

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• There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting to genius for translating the plays of Aristophanes. It is quite another thing to fail to make money because you are black, or a child, or a woman.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Black, Genius

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?

  Terry McMillan

  Basketball, Football, Thinking

  Terry McMillan (2012). “Disappearing Acts”, p.23, Penguin

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• I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.

  Richard Armitage

  Crazy, Thinking, Insanity

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• God in heaven sits on high and plays games with us. He has plenty to do up there, what with building worlds and then knocking them down again, breaking things up and then rebuilding them, and yet he can manage to put his mind even to a little grocer in his shop or to a babe in the cradle.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Games, Heaven, Mind

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• While I'd like to make movies that are uplifting, there's always that part of you that goes, 'I want to play the evil guy because it's not me.' So anything that is not me is a challenge, and if I rise to the challenge, then I've kind of proved myself.

  Dean O'Gorman

  Uplifting, Evil, Guy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You cannot play for safety and make art.

  Lucille Clifton

  Art, Safety

  "Come Celebrate with Me: Lucille Clifton and David Mura". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. March 22, 1995.

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