August Wilson Quotes

Most of black America is in housing projects, without jobs, living on welfare. And this is not the case in 'The Cosby Show,' because all the values in that household are strictly what I would call white American values.

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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But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did.

Jennifer Lawrence

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Stories about Diana's fashions, about possible rows between Charles and Diana, these were meat and drink.

Andrew Morton

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I've just concluded - since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people, and enjoys an attractive countenance - thus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington, D.C., get down on my knee, and ask his hand.

Robert Mugabe

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People have good and bad days.

Anna Chlumsky

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For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

Spike Milligan

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I never understand when people say, 'Do you do comedy or tragedy?' I don't think they're very much different. They both have to be true, and there isn't a great play in the world that doesn't have funny parts to it - as 'Salesman' does, as 'King Lear' does. The whole idea is to reflect life in some way, which means surely you have to have both.

Mike Nichols

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All of the best songs happen on a whim.

Diplo

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Brazilian music has been a part of almost every record I've done, and I'd eventually like to record an entire album of Brazilian music.

Dianne Reeves

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For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.

Dick Van Patten

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I love walking along Leith's waterfront and wandering around some of New Town's beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture.

Dexter Fletcher

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When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.

Chris Messina

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I'm an actor, but I am an awful liar.

Chris Pine

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