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I'm a De Niro fan. I went eleven years without seeing a movie; the last one before that, February 1980, was De Niro and Scorsese in 'Raging Bull,' and when I went back, it was 'Cape Fear,' with De Niro and Scorsese. I picked up right where I left off at.

~August Wilson

Topics: Back Before Bull Cape De Niro Eleven Fan Fear February Last Left Movie Niro Off Picked Raging Right Scorsese Seeing Up Where Without Years

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I've seen some terrible plays, but I generally enjoy myself. One play I walked out of, I have a tremendous respect for the author. That was Robert Wilson, something called 'Network,' which consisted of Wilson sitting on a bunk, the dialogue of the movie 'Network' looped in while a chair on a rope went up and down.

~August Wilson

Topics: Author Bunk Chair Dialogue Down Enjoy Generally Movie Myself Network Out Play Plays Respect Robert Rope Seen Sitting Some Something Terrible Tremendous Up Up And Down Walked Which While Wilson

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I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

~August Wilson

Topics: Always Artist Audience He Himself Myself Painted Particular People Picasso Same Satisfy Say Self Think Which Work Write I Think I Write

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I dropped out of school when I was 15 years old. I dropped out because I guess I wasn't getting anything out of my investment in the school.

~August Wilson

Topics: Anything Because Dropped Getting Guess Investment Old Out School Years

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With my good friend Rob Penny, I founded the Black Horizons Theater in Pittsburgh with the idea of using the theater to politicize the community or, as we said in those days, to raise the consciousness of the people.

~August Wilson

Topics: Black Community Consciousness Days Founded Friend Good Good Friend Horizons Idea Penny People Pittsburgh Raise Rob Said Theater Those Using

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I do - very specifically, I remember Bessie Smith; I used to collect 78 records that I would buy from the St Vincent de Paul store at five cents apiece, and I did this indiscriminately. I would just take whatever was there. And I listened to Patti Page and Walter Huston, 'September Song.'

~August Wilson

Topics: Buy Cents Collect Did Five Just Listened Page Paul Records Remember September Smith Song Specifically Store Take Used Very Whatever Would I Remember

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Part of what our problem as blacks in America is that we don't claim that. Partly, you see, because of the linguistic environment in which we live.

~August Wilson

Topics: America Because Blacks Claim Environment Linguistic Live Our Part Partly Problem See Which You

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I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our 'sacred book.' What I've attempted to do is to mine that field, to mine those cultural ideas and attitudes and give them to my characters.

~August Wilson

Topics: Attempted Attitudes Been Best Blacks Blues Book Call Characters Created Cultural Field Give Here Ideas Literature Mine Our Sacred Since Them Think Those I Think

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My plays are ultimately about love, honor, duty, betrayal.

~August Wilson

Topics: About Betrayal Duty Honor Love Plays Ultimately

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I haven't read Ibsen, Shaw, Shakespeare - except 'The Merchant of Venice' in ninth grade. I'm not familiar with 'Death of a Salesman.' I haven't read Tennessee Williams.

~August Wilson

Topics: Death Except Familiar Grade Merchant Ninth Read Salesman Shakespeare Tennessee Venice Williams

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: April 27th, 1945

Died: October 2nd, 2005

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