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    Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.

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    Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

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    Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense.

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    Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old movies with their stale fears and their unrealistic hopes until we become bored enough to risk disarmament and engagement.

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    Never do anything that isn't play.

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    Never be ready to play yesterday. Being ready to play today is what's important

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    Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.

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    Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.

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    Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.

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    Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.

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    Never play for the win, never play for the draw, just play chess!

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    Never make a decesion until you have to". He'd also warn me that even if I was in a position of strenght, whether at work or in a relationship, I had to play fair. "Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.

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    Never play anything the same way twice.

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    Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.

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    Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.

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    Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees.

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    Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.

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    Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language.

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    New York City isn't Chuck E. Cheese. We don't have ball pits for the kids to play in. We have titty bars and crack.

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    Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

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    NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

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    Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100 percent, because I had never reached true failure.

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    No amount of money could make me play for Liverpool, that isn't disrespect to Liverpool or their fans, it's respect for Everton

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    Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.

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    Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.

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    Nobody knows how fast he is until they play him. He has games when everything he touches turns to gold.  (on Michael Owen)

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    Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.

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    Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it

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    No, it’s very comforting actually, to know that you’re sitting in a long legacy of actresses who’ve played the role. I’m absolutely all for absorbing all of those influences, so you understand the pedigree of the part as much as you understand the figure in history… because you are playing the part. You don’t say: “Gosh, I want to play Peter Sellers…” because you can sort of do that in your own bathroom.

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    No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

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    No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

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    No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

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    No matter how long you play the guitar, there's always something else to learn.

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    No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.

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    No matter how you play the golf course, no matter how well you play, you're going to have to make 6 and 8 footers for par. It's just a given here.

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    No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.

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    No matter how poorly you play, there is always someone you can beat. No matter how well you play, there is always someone who can beat you.

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    No matter how much you sit there twiddling, going, 'We're all doomed', at the end of the day people will always want to hear you play Creep. Get over it.

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    No matter what, I will always prefer a live performance. Whether it be a play or a musical, or playing music live. As long as it's live, it's the best because there's sort of an immediacy to connection between an audience and a performer, whereas where you do film or television, you're at the whim of so many different forces.

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    No matter what does, or doesn't, happen for me in the music industry, getting to play the Opry as a kid was always be a highlight of mine.

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    No matter what feeling comes up - numbness, irritability, shame - if I let it arise and play itself through, I naturally open into wakefulness and care.

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    Not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

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    Not sure if that will benefit me or hurt me, but I know I have the skills and am ready to play in the NBA regardless of my ethnicity.

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    Not that money is a driving force. It's an honor to play for your country.

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    Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

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    Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play.

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    Now all the myths that you have heard and that resonate with you, those are the elements from round about that you are building into a form in your life. The thing worth considering is how they relate to each other in your context, not how they relate to something out there-how they were relevant on the North American prairies or in the Asian jungles hundreds of years agon, but how they are relevant now-unless by contemplating their former meaning you can begin to amplify your own understanding of the role they play in your life.

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    Nowadays, Messi is better than Ronaldinho. He is the best footballer in the world right now. And I'm not the only who says so. Everyone who has seen him play says so too.

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    Nowadays, there's a lot more that comes before music, that I need to take care of before I can sit down and play, and be a contributing member of a band or society. I have to take care of myself and my recovery, and then my family, and then my music.

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    Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.