Wole Soyinka Quotes
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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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I discovered the theater when I was in the first grade.
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I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.
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I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.
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I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.
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There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.
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Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.
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I love doing theater. That's where my home is.
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I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.
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I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
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I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
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I went to my school careers counselors and said I wanted to be an actor, and they didn't know what to do. They showed me catalogues with pretty campuses and said, 'Oh, look, there's a theater building. Why don't you go there?'
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I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.
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Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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Whether I'm writing about plumbers or psychics or psychic plumbers, I want to find a creative space that imprisons me usefully, so I can deviate with purpose.
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It’s the people you hold closest who have the most power to make you bleed.
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Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.
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Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
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There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.
