Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.
August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.
Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.
Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
American naturalism is what my indulgent actor side loves: a bit of Tennessee Williams, a bit of Clifford Odets, August Wilson - I would just love to tackle some of that.
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
It is but knowledge, putting it into practice, circumspection, fear of God, and sincerity with Him, August and Majestic is He.
I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.
Is there innocence in ignorance? And if there is, do we tolerate other for their innocence's sake?
Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.
It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.
I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
It's our culture, Christian history, that's what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We're just built that way.
From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.
August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.
My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.
Of course I prefer to have nature around me, but it doesn't have to be with the exact original vegetation for nostalgic reasons. Nature is moving and making new things.
The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.
Lyla Novacek: I'm trying to find my son. Woman at Desk: Name? Lyla Novacek: [in tears] I don't know.
I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet.
