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

• Hello, my name is Lisa Jakub. But most people in a restaurant/dentist's office/yoga studio dressing room, call me 'Hey, you look like that girl from 'Mrs. Doubtfire'/'Independence Day'/'Rambling Rose.' There is a good reason for that. I am that girl. More accurately, I was that girl.

  

  Lisa Jakub
  • People
  • Good
  • Girl

• Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • Why
  • Magic

• I'm not afraid of criticism or what somebody may think.

  

  Don Mattingly
  • May
  • Criticism

• I'm married now, but back when I had girlfriends, you were always wondering if they liked you, and if you liked them enough. You're together, but the smallest thing could make one of you go 'You know what? This isn't working!'

  

  Jeremy Sisto
  • Together

• In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

  

  John Landis
  • Career

• 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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