August Wilson Quotes

I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along.

August Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: playwright
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 27, 1945 - October 2, 2005

Topics

StartPlayGoKnowSayPiano

To be an artist that is fully original, it doesn't exist.

John Gourley

ArtistOriginalExistFully

When the campaign ends, and you are home, the alarm clock is the same, but you don't know where to start after it goes off: expense reports, new stories, the crusted paint cans that have to go to the hazardous-waste disposal site, the wiper blade on the Honda that has gone droopy.

John Dickerson

HomeStartYouGoNewKnow

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

Andy Warhol

ThoughtAmericaYouWayNeverSee

I did a couple of short films when I was in Scotland.

John Tiffany

ShortScotlandShort FilmsDidFilms

I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.

Tom Noonan

LifeThinkYouBackPlayForget

Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn't get more consistent than this year.

Roger Federer

ConsistencyYearEarlyCareerMore

I think we have a great opportunity as fighters and athletes to be good role models. I'm by no means perfect, but I think we can try.

Rose Namajunas

GoodOpportunityGreatThinkPerfect

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

Russell Baker

WorkWarColdThinkThinkingHeaven

I know I should not be a hindrance to SoftBank's future growth and that I need to pass on the baton to the younger generation.

Masayoshi Son

GrowthFutureGenerationKnowNeed

As things may turn out in the future, people may (though I doubt it) find that their work gives them all the enjoyment - physical, intellectual or aesthetic - which they may require. That certainly is not so now.

Louis MacNeice

WorkFuturePeopleAestheticDoubt

Everyone is so weird in L.A. that if you're somewhat normal, it's exotic.

David Spade

WeirdYouEveryoneNormalExotic

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

Bryant H. McGill

FailureBecomeSanctuaryYour

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