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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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"Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt."
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"The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast; I can't remember what I said or what happened."
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"I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection."
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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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"I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans."
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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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"Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing."
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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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"Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective."
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"Awards shows are my greatest inducement to get back into shape."
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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."
Play
"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."
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"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
"I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet."
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