August Wilson Quotes
With my good friend Rob Penny, I founded the Black Horizons Theater in Pittsburgh with the idea of using the theater to politicize the community or, as we said in those days, to raise the consciousness of the people.
Quotes to Explore
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!
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If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It's fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
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It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.
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I remember being in college knowing I didn't want to go anymore. I wanted to try and become an actor. There is a something in me, with a risk of sounding cliche, that I just had to do it. I knew from an early age that acting was my path.
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I started acting as a way to support myself.
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There are people whom even children’s literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.
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I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.
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I still believe a majority of Republicans are for income tax cuts.
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With my good friend Rob Penny, I founded the Black Horizons Theater in Pittsburgh with the idea of using the theater to politicize the community or, as we said in those days, to raise the consciousness of the people.
