August Wilson Quotes
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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Race is said to be non-existent, yet our cultural elites rarely seem to think of anything else.
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For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.
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I love 'The Wire'. I can't think of a television show that I think is superior to it in any way. I was obsessed with it from the moment it came on the air. I do also love 'Doctor Who' and 'Get Smart'.
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I want my grandchildren to be proud of me. That's the main thing.
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A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so.
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Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
