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August Wilson Quotes

How do we transform loss? ... Time's healing balm is essentially a hoax.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Healing Loss Transform Balm

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

Work Time Key Moderation Take Off

Actors are very often people who are placed in a position where they think they have to be grateful for the job and have no control over what they play and how they play it. I was not taught that way. I completely disagree with that. I think that you have more control than you think.

Grateful Job People Control Think

Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but bottles, boxes, jars, and vases. Yet like that of Chardin and the underappreciated William Nicholson, Morandi's work seems to slow down time and show you things you've never seen before.

Work Time Slow You Down Living

Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.

Jennifer Esposito

Family Mother Sister Pasta Mean

I'm very traditional, believe it or not. My daughters are not allowed to date until they're at least 16 and I'm going to make it 18 for the next one.

Believe Next Going Date Daughters

I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.

Sports Teacher Time Job School

I guess I find it easy to play uptight characters.

Easy Find Play Characters Guess

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

Jonathan Lethem

Fiction Arts Filmmaker Something

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

Sympathy Easy Sorrow Hard Tell

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

Nature Out Social Like Most Our

I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become.

Clayton M. Christensen

People Believe Want Kind Way Become

I could walk and swim at 10 months old.

Walk Old Swim Months Could

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