"I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't be contained by life: Asian life, European life, certainly black life. My plays are about love, honor, duty, betrayal - things humans have written about since the beginning of time."

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August Wilson

#Betrayal Quotes #Play Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.”
“To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.”
“The transfiguration of matter occurs through wonder.”
“diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.”
“Every little thing wants to be loved.”
“The music that I make isn't really like any of the music that I listen to. I think I listen to cool music, but I know that I don't make cool music - so it's kind of funny!”
“When the passion isn't there, the drive isn't there and it just doesn't last for me.”
“Over the last several quarters we have been growing faster in Asia and Europe than any other place on the planet. We have 18 percent of the global PC share, about 12 percent in Europe, and 8 percent in Asia.”

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