August Wilson Quotes
The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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I am more into the old school guy than I am with the new school guys. I came in young and I had to pay my dues to be considered a vet. To be able to play for over 10 years at wide receiver, that's why I like looking at the older guys like Larry Fitzgerald, Teddy Ginn Jr., Brian Hartline. That's what I'm about.
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.
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I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.
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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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Lo! the moon ascending!Up from the East, the silvery round moon;Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon;Immense and silent moon.
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Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls... Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.
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No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.
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Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.
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Barring some sociopaths, probably, there is nobody who doesn't care about their appearance.
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What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.
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As a public servant, William H. Webster has an impeccable resume.
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In my everyday life, I'm pretty normal.
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I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.
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I grew up on a farm, and I had good, natural South Tyrolean food.
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It's impossible to accept love from anyone else if you don't love yourself. It's a big issue, particularly for us plus-size ladies and for anyone dealing with weight, because we're not taught to love ourselves or be our own cheerleaders.
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We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
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The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.
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Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
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James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
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When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody knew about. My due date also happened to be 14 April.
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The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.
