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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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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I love girl power.
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With drama, you know if you're having a true moment, but in comedy, if somebody doesn't laugh, then you know you're not being funny. That's a really fun challenge, and that's what draws me to comedy.
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The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so quickly.
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Things are steadily coming better, but I'm having problems with a few places on the track.
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To be a good director, you have to spend a lot of time on actual sets, but today, there's a lot of people who spend a lot of time in dark rooms writing a script, and they'll go in and tell the story to some suit at a studio who says, 'Okay, this is great, let's go.' But that doesn't necessarily mean you know what to do once you're on set.
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First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
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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.
