Athol Fugard Quotes
Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'
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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.
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What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
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I know how demanding the process of creation is.
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Pretension is nothing; power is everything.
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Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world. In some part, this is due to irrigation issues and inhospitable climes. Egypt's dependence on wheat is also partially because for decades it has been cheaper to import wheat, corn, soy and barley from the U.S. than to grow it locally.
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I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.
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It is not from choice that my life is music and nothing more, but when one is an artist what else can he be? When a whole lifetime is too short to attain the heights he wants to reach, how then can he devote any of the little time he has to things outside of his art?
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Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.
