August Wilson Quotes

Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.

August Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.

Jodi Picoult

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Jazz does what it wants to, and so does The Wu.

Amanda Seales

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In life, you don't get anywhere or do anything you hope to without some sort of sacrifice.

Stephen Saad

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When Ellen Datlow was running the fiction at 'Omni' in the late '80s and into the '90s, I had a subscription. It was one of two subscriptions I'd saved for, the other being 'Spider-Man.' And they each opened my mind and my heart in wonderful ways.

Stephen Graham Jones

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I love having debates with people when they are debates but some people, you just can't. Some people shouldn't be given the oxygen.

Russell T Davies

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Right now I'm 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I've got big bones and I'm maintaining muscle.

Lisa Leslie

GoodWomanMeNowMuscleRight

I think of protest as confrontation and disruption, as the end of silence.

DeRay Mckesson

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We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either.

Bob Menendez

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When I went to college, I wasn't really happy at there, and I really wanted to come home. Mind you, I auditioned for 'The Wiz' the day after I came home from college. I wanted to come home and try to go to a new school.

Shanice Williams

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I want people to see the fact that we've lost millions of manufacturing jobs to outsourcing and globalization. Sometimes images can convey that better.

Seph Lawless

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Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

Thomas Edward Brown

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Every person I've ever met always thinks their parents are weird.

Rick Nielsen

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