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.
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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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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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It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.
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There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.
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For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.
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I don't believe in blanket statements on race.
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The study of history reveals that human progress has not been continuous and regular, but intermittent and spasmodic, often depending upon apparently accidental causes. It is difficult to get a cross-section view of society at any given stage.
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There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.
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I like that there's no love as fierce as the love you feel for your family; that there's no one you feel more protective of than the very same people who can drive you crazy.
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Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.
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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.
