Tony Kushner Quotes
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
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'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
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I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury stuffing to a vine leaf filled with rice and spices.
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Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.
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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
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On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.
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I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
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I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and curse and keep trying to guess what belongs in the space.
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The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.
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In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
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I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.
