Athol Fugard Quotes
I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.
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The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
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A lot of rookies hit the wall after 50 or 60 games.
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Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
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Nobody escapes during Lisa Lampanelli's show.
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If I’d had the brass ovaries to do it last year, we wouldn’t be here now.
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I'm living my life and I found a woman who I love.
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I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential.
