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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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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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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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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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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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out, 'This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!!!' But in this exclamation I would have been as fanatical as Bryant or Cleverly. Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.
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Periods of cooperation between political parties shouldn't be taken for granted; they are a stunning human achievement.
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Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of running a supermarket chain might allow them to balance the books, it does not mean they have any insight into how a ward should be managed and patients best served.
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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.
