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August Wilson Quotes

I try to explore, in terms of the life I know best, those things which are common to all cultures.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Best Know Try Explore Cultures

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

Dead More Number State Than Met

I'm just not into the shady side of the music industry. Give credit where credit's due.

Music Credit Side Industry Shady

Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.

America Tax Why Need Income Tax Pay

I was on the dole once. I loved it. It was only for a couple of years, when I was 20 or 21 and playing in a band. Back then, this was something young folk did - you got your rent paid, a little bit of money to live on, and you loafed around, wrote songs, rehearsed and dreamed of playing Wembley Stadium.

Live Money Loved You Back Young

The miniskirt enables young ladies to run faster, and because of it, they may have to.

Young Run May Because Faster Ladies

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

Purpose Mouth Animals Dead Used

I just enjoy the sound as I hear it in everything around me. The high and low frequencies of sound bewitch me. Whether I am in a shop, in the bathroom or listening to noise that my fans make... everything is music to my ears and drives me. I just put all these things in rhythm when I'm playing.

Music I Am Me Listening Enjoy High

Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

Life Business Long Over Planet Who

We were the first bank to start a loan modification at IndyMac and had a very good record of working with the regulators.

Good Start Loan Bank First Working

When families break down, you have a lot of repercussion from that, from poverty to crime to lack of discipline.

Discipline Poverty You Down Crime

I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

Honesty I Am Me I Can Play Way

An audience who watches my shows knows who I am, knows that right when they think I'm going to make a joke, I'm going to blow something up, or during the worst peril, I'm going to have someone give someone a kiss - it's just going to happen.

I Am Kiss Think Someone Watches Up

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