August Wilson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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I am not honest.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to be the setting for one of my books. I pay more attention to certain aspects than some other people might. Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. Most of the books I write are based on experiences I've had to some extent.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.
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Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers).
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I watch 'The Voice' and 'American Idol,' and I sit in my Brookstone foot massager. It's so exciting at my house.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.
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Pittsburgh is a very hard city, especially if you're black.
