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It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it.


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AUGUST KROGH In the giraffe with a total height of 5 m., the heart is at a height of about 2.5 m., and it would b...
AUGUST KROGH My plays are ultimately about love, honor, duty, betrayal.
AUGUST WILSON My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Barak...
AUGUST WILSON I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that'...
AUGUST WILSON The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural resp...
AUGUST WILSON As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
AUGUST WILSON Anything you want to know, you ask the characters.
AUGUST WILSON I try to explore, in terms of the life I know best, those things which are common to all cultures.
AUGUST WILSON as soon as a work of art is of practical use, betrays a purpose or a tendency its beauty vanishes.
AUGUST STRINDBERG Svijet obično ne sudi mladića po duševnih vrlinah, već po školskih svjedodžbah ili kašnje po ...
AUGUST ŠENOA You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father
AUGUST STRINDBERG For the whole of life consists of nothing but contradictions. The rich are the poor in spirit; the m...
AUGUST STRINDBERG Society is madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police
AUGUST STRINDBERG You not the only one who's got wants and needs. But I held on to you, Troy. I took all my feelings, ...
AUGUST WILSON I believe in music the way some people believe in fairy tales
AUGUST RUSH (AUGUST RUSH 2007 MOVIE) I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says ...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed t...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS