August Wilson Quotes

Scripts were rather scarce in 1968. We did a lot of Amiri Baraka's plays, the agitprop stuff he was writing. It was at a time when black student organizations were active on the campuses, so we were invited to the colleges around Pittsburgh and Ohio, and even as far away as Jackson, Mississippi.

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• I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Feel

• I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Life
  • Live
  • Remember

• It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Job
  • Think
  • Stop

• The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Different
  • Play
  • Acting

• Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Money
  • Government
  • Numbers

• It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Up
  • May
  • More

• Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Myself
  • Watch
  • Objective

• When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Guilty

• Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Good
  • Culture

• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Ideas
  • Air
  • Breathing

• In a universe that's an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Today
  • Universe
  • Creative

• The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Government
  • Recovery
  • Principal

• A hard man is good to find.

  

  Mae West
  • Good
  • Man
  • Find

• In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

  

  Florence King
  • Moral
  • Snake
  • Bee

• Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Job
  • American
  • Growth

• It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Why
  • Know
  • Question

• One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without question 90% of what I listen to and my passion, there are other things I enjoy. My first ever favorite band in my life before KISS was a power-pop band called The Raspberries.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Life
  • Power

• I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.

  

  John Frusciante

• Writing has never been a driving force within me.

  

  Jeffrey Combs
  • Writing
  • Driving

• I think that men's clothing should be functional. If there's a rip in his jeans, it should be because he was out working, not because he ripped them so they looked cool. It's even better if they're ripped because he got in a fight.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Men
  • Cool
  • Fight

• Plenty of gun opponents have pointed out the obvious: that the Founding Fathers could never have envisioned the kinds of 'arms' that exist today - Washington, Jefferson, and the rest had never even seen a bullet. Musket balls for guns that required constant reloading were the 'arms' of the day.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • Today
  • Rest
  • Gun

• I've never been invited to do an exhibition or do a talk in England, except once, about 10 years ago. I've given talks all across Canada, many in the United States, South Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan - but not England.

  

  Brian Wildsmith

• Scripts were rather scarce in 1968. We did a lot of Amiri Baraka's plays, the agitprop stuff he was writing. It was at a time when black student organizations were active on the campuses, so we were invited to the colleges around Pittsburgh and Ohio, and even as far away as Jackson, Mississippi.

  

  August Wilson
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