Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.
August WilsonRead
Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Style is about maintaining a consistent idea or theme throughout one's work.
In this quote, August Wilson emphasizes that style is not just about superficial aesthetics; rather, it reflects a coherent and consistent idea or theme that persists from the beginning to the end of a creative work. He suggests that everyone possesses their own unique style, which is an inherent expression of their ideas and values.
Themes
StyleConsistencyCreativityExpressionArtIdea
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of authenticity in artistic expression.
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August WilsonRead
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.
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I do - very specifically, I remember Bessie Smith; I used to collect 78 records that I would buy from the St Vincent de Paul store at five cents apiece, and I did this indiscriminately. I would just take whatever was there. And I listened to Patti Page and Walter Huston, 'September Song.'
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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.
August WilsonRead
When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that in order to make art out of their dialogue I had to change it, make it into something different. Once I learned to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I let them start talking.
August WilsonRead
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