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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 are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one."

"Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement."

"You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately."

"It's not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!"

"Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards."

"I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real."

"Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective."
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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."


"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."


"For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else."


"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."


"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."


"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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