Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner. - August Wilson

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She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.

August Wilson

Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.

Corner, Corners, Death, Fastballs, Nothing

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I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself. - Troy -

Done, Life, Mistake, Nothing, Right, Trying

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

Folks, Play, Say, Theater, White

. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to be somehow representative of black American life, and I didn't have any women in there. And I knew that wasn't going to work.

Black, Life, Play, Set, Supposed, Writing

The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system of laws and practices that deny us access to the tools necessary for productive and industrious life, are available to any serious student of history or sociology.

Deny, Law, Practice, Sociology, Struggle, Survive

I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.

Half, Saw, Saws, Seen, Watch, Watches

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Ernest Hemingway

I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.

Children, Fear, Men, Presence, Thing

Neill Blomkamp

I think a lot of the inspirations for me are very instinctual and subconscious. I don't over intellectualize stuff much. It's a very instinctual thing.

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George Herbert

Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.

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Sri Aurobindo

Gods, Mind, Myriad, Saws, Spirit, Sri Lanka

Helmut Jahn

German and English firms operate internationally, while French firms do not. The only place where they all have work is in China. Anybody can sell himself in China!

China, Firm, Sells, French, Operate, Internationally