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August Wilson Quotes

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Me Play Move On Now Historical Move

An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home.

Life Family Home Children Die Help

Looking at the Batman pages is like revisiting my youth. My first seven years in New York were the first seven years of Batman itself. While my time on Batman was important and exciting and notable considering the characters that came out of it, it was really just the start of my life.

Life Time New York Youth Start New

In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball.

Stephen Baldwin

Time Baseball America Country First

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

Remember Geometry First Exciting

I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.

Love Enough Write Things Fortunate

American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.

Clayton M. Christensen

Service Finance Balance American Put

I think the problem people get into is they want to go into the gym and look at other people's workouts, or they want to lift what other people are lifting. I started out really small. I actually did a lot of research, and I learned all about working out. So take gradual steps.

People Research Small Think Problem

Projects are usually undertaken to either solve a problem or take advantage of an opportunity. The probability that the project - even if precisely executed - will complete on time, on budget, and on performance is typically small. Project management is utilized to increase this probability. So in a sense, project management is risk management.

Opportunity Time Management Small

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

Life Success Failure Moment Lie

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

Good Mother Daughter Time School Go

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Success Great I Am Celebrity United

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Religion Child Mind Be True True

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