Athol Fugard Quotes - Page 2

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• There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone. If you are a true artist, you will have a very finely tuned moral mechanism.

  Athol Fugard

  Artist, Trying, Moral

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• Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.

  Athol Fugard

  Writing, Thinking, Night

  "Once upon a life" by Athol Fugard, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2010.

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• In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life.

  Athol Fugard

  New York, Flavor Of The Month, Months

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• Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

  Athol Fugard

  Selfish, Creativity, Facts

  "I'm a storyteller, that's all" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2002.

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• My essential identity is that of a writer.

  Athol Fugard

  Identity, Essentials

  "Athol Fugard: Art Battling Apartheid and Aids". Interview with Brad Schreiber, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2008.

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• I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

  Athol Fugard

  Play, Form, Disguise

  "I'm a storyteller, that's all" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2002.

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• A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But somehow you do.

  Athol Fugard

  Age, Close Friends, Mines

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