August Wilson Quotes
I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.
Quotes to Explore
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I'd like to do something with Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr., Tim McGraw, Justin Timberlake, and Gwen Stefani.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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Wake up early everyday so that while others are still dreaming, you can make your dreams come true.
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Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.
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Marty [Scorsese] knows that when an improvised moment comes out of a real situation, it's gonna have more life and more going on than anything you can imagine and that's how the character can become the story.
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Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.
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Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.
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I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.
