"My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't really have a function as a useful artist in that anymore."

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Source : "Playwright Fugard Bucked South Africa's 'Racist Ideas'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 1, 2012.

Athol Fugard

#Artist Quotes #Years Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“Actually, I get a little say in what my character would or wouldn't do.”
“It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.”
“I think there are a lot of Americans who are very scared, scared that [Vladimir] Putin manipulated us, worried about Rex Tillerson, the winner of Russia's order of friendship as the secretary of state.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com
“Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. Its so crazy how drastic even the small details change - in such an amazing way. Even silly things, like the fact that all of my pictures on my cell phone used to be of me at photo shoots - conceited, I know! - but now every single picture on my phone is of Mason.”
“If you defy the system long enough you'll be rewarded. At first life takes revenge and reduces you to a sniveling mess. But keep sniveling, have the madness, the audacity, to do what interests you, forget about your pension, and eventually life will say all right, we'll let you do it.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.265, iUniverse
“...in the face of all dangers, in what may seem a godless region, we move forward through the agencies of love and art.”
“When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done French and German. I picked up Italian, just sort of blasted through the exams, [and then] took off overseas, because I wanted to be an actor. I thought, "I'm just not academic." I'm not very competitive, in terms of acting. But since going back to university, I've realized, I am highly competitive.”
“I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.”

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