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"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."
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"The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night."
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"Awards don't really mean much."
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"Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one."
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"I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show."
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"I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I wins."
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"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."
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"I've seen some great write ups and I emailed her the other night because I saw her on an awards show recently."
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"I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!"
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"Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement."
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"Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn't, it's still been a blast."
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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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"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."
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"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


"Suffice it to say, I'm not poor."
Poor


"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


"Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience."
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"As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites."
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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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"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
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