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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.


Jackie Cooper
At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.
Marsha Norman
I don't want to interview people. I want to have a conversation. I want to talk to Paul McCartney about the bass sound on 'The White Album.'
Nikki Sixx
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Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.


Mark Haddon
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Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.
Eric Schlosser
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One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist. People are afraid of socialism, and plays that deal with economics are scarier to them.
Tony Kushner
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A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.


Val Kilmer
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'Last House' offended a lot of people. The results in the theaters, even in Boston, reminded me a bit of things from when I was studying Theater of the Absurd, and the rise and the appearance of Ionesco plays, and things like that.
Wes Craven
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My dad has actually really influenced me musically. I have a weird love for '80s and '90s music. A lot of people are like, 'Are you serious? It's so lame.' But my dad always plays that in the car whenever we're together.
Harley Quinn Smith
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All my life, I've had these flashbacks, these dreams, nightmares, daymares, like visions, where I relive certain plays. Only the bad plays. I see them over and over, as if somebody's rewinding a tape and forcing me to watch.
Colin Kaepernick
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We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it's uncomfortable to talk about.
Al Franken
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You know, men would much rather run away than talk about stuff, and my default setting has always been, 'If you have an argument, walk out the door.'
Stephen Moyer
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I love a lot of these older actresses, like Cicely Tyson, who played Kunta Kinte's mother in 'Roots.' She was really great, and I like seeing her because every movie she plays, she plays a strong character. As a kid, she was really inspiring to me.
Keke Palmer
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I went to drama school in the U.K., where we did endless Chekov plays.


Joe Anderson
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A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.
Steven Sinofsky
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My pride at being a member of the theater community is deep, and we have a chance to reach a lot of people who might feel like there's a place for them. I want theater to be part of the cultural conversation and be on par with all mediums of television in its ability to be relevant.
Thomas Kail
I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.
Loretta Lynn
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.


Jack Horner
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You know, I'm trying to chase rings, and that's all I'm about. So that's where the conversation stops for me.
Stephen Curry
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God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.


Stephen Hawking
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