George C. Wolfe Quotes
Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals.
Quotes to Explore
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem.
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Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
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Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.
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The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.
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Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.
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People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.
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Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening.
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Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals.
