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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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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
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"The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever."
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"The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set."
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"My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998."
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"There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk."
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"When I first saw Jo, I said boom, that was it, because I'm a one-woman man."
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"The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself."
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"I'm a songwriter first."
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"There have been many cases in which stars have come to us first to break the news because they knew the pressure was on. They wanted to have it on the air so that they could give their honest evaluation of the situation."
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"All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it."
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"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."
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"I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet."
First
"Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience."
Experience
"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."
Awards
"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."
Now
"Suffice it to say, I'm not poor."
Poor
"Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history."
History
"As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites."
Play
"All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other."
Love
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