Tony Kushner Quotes

Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.

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• 'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Learn
  • Start

• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Genius

• I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Work
  • Taken

• How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Work
  • City
  • How

• I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Work
  • Control
  • Singing

• You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Work
  • Different
  • Oil

• I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Book

• My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Father
  • Face

• Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Expressing

• Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Work
  • Ability
  • Somebody

• I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • Work
  • Proud

• I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Problems

• People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.

  

  Gary Larson
  • People
  • Work
  • Ideas

• There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Work
  • Same
  • Year

• Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Enemy

• I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Believe
  • Torture
  • Limit

• When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Work
  • American
  • America

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• 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.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • Father

• One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

  

  James Caan
  • Guy
  • Night
  • Son

• Time is described only in terms of change in the network of relationships that describes space.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Time
  • Space

• If we don't have Willie it's going to hurt us. But we have so many guys ready to step up.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
  • Hurt
  • Guys

• Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Torture