Tony Kushner Quotes
One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.
Tony Kushner
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
Gavin Newsom
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
Imogen Cunningham
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Ouida
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
Pankaj Mishra
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The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.
Washed Out
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Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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I'm no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded: 'I'm producing it, directing it, and starring in it' kind of person; that's not me.
Tom Hollander
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We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
Narendra Modi
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I held hands with her all the time...that doesn't sound like much, I realize, but she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something.
J. D. Salinger
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My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I want them to be free to discover it in their own good time. I think reading an intimate memoir by your father - or an intimate autobiographical work, whatever we want to call this thing - you have to come at it at the right moment, so I'm certainly not foisting it upon them.
Paul Auster
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You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.
Audrey Hepburn
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One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.
Tony Kushner
