August Wilson Quotes
I just write stuff down and pile it up, and when I get enough stuff, I spread it out and look at it and figure out how to use it.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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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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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
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Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.
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People are trying to figure out how to pay bills and make ends meet. They don't want to turn on the TV and say, 'What is this crap?'
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Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance.
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I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.
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I've been, for want of a better phrase, a supporting actress so much of my life.
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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I just write stuff down and pile it up, and when I get enough stuff, I spread it out and look at it and figure out how to use it.
