Athol Fugard says that playwriting is a craft: The playwright builds plays as a shipwright builds ships. Fugard likens creating a play to making a table – all four legs need to be solid so that the piece stands firmly on its own.
11 January, 2013
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“The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived” — Oscar Wilde
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4 January, 2014
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“I wonder if heaven got a ghetto” — Tupac Shakur |
29 December, 2013
21 December, 2013
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“If I was your girlfriend would u remember 2 tell me all the things u forgot
when I was your man?” — Prince “If I was your girlfriend”
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15 December, 2013
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“Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen |
7 December, 2013
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“My mother was a kitchen girl, my father was a garden boy, that’s why I’m a communist, I’m a communist, a communist.” — a popular South Africa song being sung outside Mandela’s home as crowds held vigil just after his passing. |
30 November, 2013
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“The ox plowing the field is the one that gets whipped (rather than the ox just sitting in the field doing nothing.)” — Rough translation of a Sepedi saying, told to me on the occasion of my leaving my job. |
24 November, 2013
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“Every other Nigerian has a small dagger in his pocket, hoping to draw blood Get your own dagger! Be on your guard, and may the Lord be with you.” — Peter Enahoro (AKA Peter Pan) from “How to be a Nigerian” |
16 November, 2013
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“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on” – Winston Churchill |