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Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.

August Wilson

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August Wilson
Age: 60 †
Born: 1945
Born: April 27
Died: 2005
Died: October 2
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Frederick August Kittel
Frederick August Kittel
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August Kittel
Idea
Ends
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Nothing
Keeping
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Everybody

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Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.
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. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to be somehow representative of black American life, and I didn't have any women in there. And I knew that wasn't going to work.
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You are responsible for the world that you live in.
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Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
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I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible.
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I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and their ability to have input themselves, not just to follow what the playwright has written. So I do a minimum set description and let the designers create within that.
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What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?
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All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything.
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I dont write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but thats not why I write.
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As long as the colored man look to white folks to put the crown on what he say . . . as long as he looks to white folks for approval . . . then he ain't never gonna find out who he is and what he's about.
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Life don't owe you nothing.
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I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself. - Troy -
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I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean.
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Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.
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Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and their attitudes, the stance that they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.
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So somehow, things that seem extraneous to the play in reality are not. The scene lasts 37 minutes, and you only need 12 minutes of that for the plot. But if you pull the rest of it out, it's not my play.
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I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show' I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.
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I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
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You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.
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My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.
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