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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Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
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After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.
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It was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I got to see firsthand the sacrifices that Israelis make in the name of security because of the dangerous state of affairs there. I will always be a strong supporter of Israel.
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What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.
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We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.
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If you want to participate in life, you have to deny your identity.
