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.
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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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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.
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What the world does not need is another script or television writer.
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Uninfluenced by others, he never knew he influenced them; he had no idea they liked him.
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Nobody's dumb in this relationship [with his wife] or in the relationships of any of the other guys in the band. But it's also not the cliché that those on the outside envision.
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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.
