August Wilson Quotes
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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The bottom line is this: Cash, in modest increments, has a role in any portfolio. But unless you are Warren Buffett, you should limit it to 2 or 3 percent.
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Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.
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No such thing as a Dixiecrat.
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It's been incredibly frustrating. The US government gave permission for the doctors to live in America, in freedom.
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The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.
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If you want to participate in life, you have to deny your identity.
