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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.


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AUGUST WILSON The harder you try to hold onto them, the easier it is for some gal to pull them away.
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AUGUST WILSON Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.
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AUGUST WILSON Blacks in America want to forget about slavery -- the stigma, the shame. That's the wrong move. If y...
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AUGUST WILSON assimilation that black Americans have been rejecting for the past 380 years.
AUGUST WILSON Gem of the Ocean,
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AUGUST WILSON When you look at a fellow, if you taught yourself to look for it, you can see his song written on hi...
AUGUST WILSON As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
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AUGUST WILSON I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed.
AUGUST WILSON I'm glad I finished the cycle [of plays],
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AUGUST WILSON I'm standing! I'm standing! My legs stood up!
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AUGUST WILSON The Piano Lesson.
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BILLE AUGUST People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
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AUGUST KROGH I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
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AUGUST STRINDBERG Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman b...
AUGUST STRINDBERG The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband ...
AUGUST STRINDBERG I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love
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AUGUST STRINDBERG I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
AUGUST STRINDBERG People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard a...
AUGUST STRINDBERG Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.
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AUGUST HARE Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
AUGUST HARE Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
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AUGUST BEBEL Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.
AUGUST BEBEL Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization
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JOHN AUGUST post-apocalyptic fantasy.
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AUGUST KROGH There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.
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AUGUST PILLSBURY I don't like to call myself a poet, ... Most poets are shiftless, no-account fools.
AUGUST KLEINZAHLER The New Jersey character - at least this part of Jersey - is straightforward, plainspoken to the poi...
AUGUST KLEINZAHLER The living generation is bound to support them, as it would an aged and slightly zany parent.
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AUGUST HANNING As new developments they present new dangers.
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AUGUST KROGH Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is e...
AUGUST STRINDBERG Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate.
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AUGUST KEKULé You have this novel idea of the world, like it’s made up of ladder hunting and test taking and fra...
J.M. AUGUST Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then perhaps we shall learn the truth.
AUGUST KEKULé The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced b...
AUGUST KROGH That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of ...
AUGUST STRINDBERG The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
BILLE AUGUST Doesn't matter how near; Doesn't matter how far; One thing is clear; I love you wherever you are
AUGUST LINDBERG The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small num...
AUGUST KROGH I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television...
BILLE AUGUST It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, an...
BILLE AUGUST The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I me...
BILLE AUGUST What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect t...
AUGUST STRINDBERG A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point o...
AUGUST STRINDBERG I dream, therefore I exist.
AUGUST STRINDBERG The affinity of blood or pure haemoglobins for oxygen is a complex phenomenon, depending upon a numb...
AUGUST KROGH In the tissues generally, and in such a cavity as the abdomen, the pressure is everywhere and practi...
AUGUST KROGH The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the a...
AUGUST KROGH In many cases of inflammation, the vascular changes develop slowly and long after the application of...
AUGUST KROGH In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combin...
AUGUST KROGH Since muscular contractions are usually more or less regularly alternated with relaxations, the syst...
AUGUST KROGH In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to s...
AUGUST KROGH For a large number of problems, there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which...
AUGUST KROGH In the giraffe with a total height of 5 m., the heart is at a height of about 2.5 m., and it would b...
AUGUST KROGH as soon as a work of art is of practical use, betrays a purpose or a tendency its beauty vanishes.
AUGUST STRINDBERG Svijet obično ne sudi mladića po duševnih vrlinah, već po školskih svjedodžbah ili kašnje po ...
AUGUST ŠENOA You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father
AUGUST STRINDBERG For the whole of life consists of nothing but contradictions. The rich are the poor in spirit; the m...
AUGUST STRINDBERG Society is madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police
AUGUST STRINDBERG I believe in music the way some people believe in fairy tales
AUGUST RUSH (AUGUST RUSH 2007 MOVIE) I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says ...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed t...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS Oddly enough, I've always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn't use enoug...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like C...
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