August Wilson Quotes
Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, the stance they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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Did you know that, pound for pound, the moose is the leanest ruminant on Earth? It's true. Moose are very in tune with their natural surroundings.
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Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.
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The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
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I have been the hugest HBO fan since I was 3, watching programming that I had no business watching as a child.
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Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.
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Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, the stance they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.
