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" When I was little, I remember rehearsing starving so that when I got to New York I would know how to do it. "

George C. Wolfe

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" I think we all have a primal desire to know as much as we can to find out about where we come from. "

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" Each actor, every single time you work with an actor, you have to come up with the language that's going to serve them. And that's what allows them to give the performance that you want to nurture inside of them and what you think they're capable of giving. "

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" 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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" My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover something new. "

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" Producing has empowered me as an artist in a specific way. It's forced a certain kind of maturity. "

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

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" I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful. "

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

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" I'm the most democratic fascist you'll ever meet. I listen to everybody, and then I make a decision. "

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" When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like everybody's serving you. But you're really serving the materials. You're serving the actors. You're in charge, but it's not free. "

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" At the end of the day, 'Shuffle Along' is about people coming together and making something extraordinary - and history not necessarily being kind to them. It's about the love of necessarily being kind to them. It's about the love of doing, regardless of the consequences. "

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" I'm convinced whenever something opens on Broadway, it's a miracle. It's a miracle that people survived. "

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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. "

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

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

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" Always, when I do a play, there's got to be an equation of risks and potential failure. When you're working on a new play, it's like, 'How the hell do I do this, and do we have the time?' All of these huge questions engage, hopefully, the smartest part of me. And then when you're doing a revival, I went, 'Well, somebody's already solved it.' "

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" 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. "

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" 'Jelly,' more than any black musical before it, celebrated the majesty, the purity, the joy of so many artists who are unable to fully embody these same qualities in their own lives. "

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" I'm interested in exploring how an individual maintains a sense of power in a world that tends to make individuals feel powerless. "

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" Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals. "

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