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Wole Soyinka Quotes

I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: nigerian
Birth: July 13, 1934

Topics

Purpose Always Out System Something

In a free market capitalist system, 'price signals' are everything. Prices are determined by buyers and sellers in the free market, and these prices are broadcast from the exchanges, reaching all corners of the economy - where they are used to transact business.

Business Free Price Economy System

You gotta understand, there weren't a whole lot of roles for Hispanics in the Eighties, so comedy was really the way I could really feed myself and eventually feed my family. I was an actor who learned to be a comic, and it's cool to come back and get back into acting - move forward in the direction I started out to do in the beginning.

Steven Michael Quezada

Family Myself Beginning Cool Forward

I work a lot of things out on stage nowadays rather than writing them in big blocks.

Work Writing Stage Out Things Big

I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.

Myself Impossible Anything Get

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

Happiness I Can Fame Want More Tell

I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.

Ride Short You Talk Over Late-Night

When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I respect - basically, a 40-bloc radius from my apartment in Manhattan.

Respect Think Friends Opinions Play

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

Flowers Sympathy Grow Moments Dark

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

Aung San Suu Kyi

World Think Conscience Prisoner

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

Thought Always Realism Idealism

To my parents, Morris and Helen, I give thanks for the gift of life, the vehicle for the expression of my work, and for your continued full and unequivocal support from both sides of the physical plane.

Peter A. Levine

Life Work Support Parents Gift Give

I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life.

Life Fear Women Beautiful I Am Feel

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