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" Growing up in the South, I was raised to be a Negro boy. I was acutely aware how other people perceived me, and that informed my behavior. That worked for a period of time, but it could also be suffocating. "

George C. Wolfe

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" AIDS is a shared truth - it's not selective in its wrath. "

" When 'Jelly's' went out on tour, no one really wanted it. It was undersold. And I knew if I gave 'Noise' to someone else, they would sell it as 'Stomp' with little dancing black boys. "

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" I feel like I'm edgy and I'm funny and I got this bite, this outrageousness. "

" I think all creative people are operating from the fear that, of the best of what they did, will anybody remember it? Will anybody tell stories about them? Will anybody keep those pictures on the mantle long after they are gone? It's why people write stories. It's peoples' grave markers. "

" All the things that can happen to an artist regardless of how prepared they are and how smart they are and hard-working they are and attractive - doesn't matter. There's always somebody cuter. There just is. "

" One of the things I learned very early on was that if you cast the show correctly, and if you've created the right energy in the room, the solution is also in the room. The solution doesn't necessarily come from someone, but if everybody is working in a very steadfast and rigorous way, then everything you're looking for is in the room. "

" Everybody wants to be remembered for the best of who they are. "

" 1985 - That was my time in New York, and I have such poetic, fond memories. "

" I love working with a set designer because, in many respects, you meet the set designer before you meet the actors. So it's a chance for me as a director to figure out what I'm thinking and to explore how the space is going to actually be activated. "

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" Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist. "

" With actors, I have very close, intense working relationships with actors in theater. "

" The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster. "

" I want to create a theater that looks, feels, and smells like America. "

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" 'You Gotta Have Heart' is one of the most ridiculously perfect, amazing musical comedy songs ever. "

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" The Public Theater requires one to be very public, and writing requires one to be very private. "

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" I feel like I've been very blessed in the sense that I've had the veracity of spirit to not be stopped and, at the same time, the protective energy and the generosity of those who have come before me, who saw something inside of me and, therefore, invited me into rooms that I would not have been inside of otherwise. "

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" Anytime you create art, you create a mess. I mean, 'Hamlet' is a mess! "

" I don't go, like, 'Hmm, I'm now going to create something for the black community.' I just feel this compelling urge. I just feel myself drawn to stories that I feel have a potency and immediacy. "

" In the early '90s or so, I drove my father to Providence, Ky., his hometown, and he was pointing out, 'That's where the doctor's office was,' and 'That's where we bought ice cream.' And he was pointing to empty lots. When you lose communities, what do you have? We often survive by remembering the stories. "

" Certain events make people come out of their little boxes and become part of the whole. "

" You can go see ballet in its purity; you can go to a recital to hear music by itself. But what the American musical does so thrillingly is bastardize these forms into something that is exhilarating and compelling and deeply moving. "

George C. Wolfe

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