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All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out, and reinvent yourself.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Africa Apartheid Been Boxing Change Else Extraordinary Finding Finding Yourself Get Gloves Had Having Life Lifetime Like My Life Nobody Nobody Else Off Opponent Out Realising Reinvent Ring Shadow South South Africa Spent Suddenly Take Through You Yourself

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Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Audiences Different Film Goes Gotten Like More Never Society Subversive Theater Way Will Work

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You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Act Another Asking Asking Questions Between Confession Existence Forgiveness Heart Human Human Heart Individual Judges Legislate Mysteries Occur Panel Questions Sitting Test Those True Truth Trying You Your

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'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the Fugard line of alcoholism. Thankfully I haven't passed it on to my child, a wonderful daughter who's stone-cold sober. But I had the tendency from my father, just as he had had it from his father.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: About Boy Child Daughter Down Father Had Harold He His Just Line Little Master Me Passed Running Sober Tendency Thankfully Thread Who Wonderful

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Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.

~Athol Fugard

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Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Africa Ask Basis Courage Done Forgiveness Had Having Movement Realization Realizing Really Significant South South Africa White Without

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I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Africa Beautiful Dried Else Everything Everything Else Most Most Powerful Out Powerful South Survives Symbols Think Wild I Think

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I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

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Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: About Alone Asleep Assault Blank Blank Page Brainstorm Day Family Last Next Page Plan Strategy Thing Think Writing I Think

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The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with 'Blood Knot,' which was trying to convince South African audiences that South African stories also had a place on the stage.

~Athol Fugard

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Biography

Nationality: South African

Type: Playwright

Born: June 11th, 1932

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