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What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And by writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African-Americans are as wide open as God's closet.


August Wilson

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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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