#so

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

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The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.' ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#birth #gave #land #optimistic #pessimistic

I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along. ↗

— August Wilson

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I don't think we'll ever use the same sound techniques. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#i #same #sound #techniques #think

I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#i #like #really #remixes #some

We're not like Alice In Chains where somebody dies and the band breaks up. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#band #breaks #chains #dies #like

You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#big #big hair #certain #certain way #corsets

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites. ↗

— August Wilson

#folks #good #jammed #play #say

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. ↗

— August Wilson

#between #calendar #every #find #focus

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else. ↗

— August Wilson

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