Tony Kushner Quotes
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The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.
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I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.
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We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
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When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.
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When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
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I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.
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If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
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A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.
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I'm terribly, horribly shy.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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I love to meet the fans. I just get embarrassed with those who weep. I don't know what to do or what to say. It's a very embarrassing situation.
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When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
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When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.
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I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.
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'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
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It's the same thing in a way with privacy. You can say "I'm not doing anything wrong, therefore this doesn't concern me," but what does it mean about our society if we're all being watched and recorded? The personal experience - negotiating this as individuals - doesn't describe the social reality and the broader social costs.
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Sundry manifestations of nature in men and women, are greatly perverted by existing social conventions upheld by both. There are feelings which, under our predatory régime, with its adapted standard of propriety, it is not considered manly to show; but which, contrariwise, are considered admirable in women. Hence repressed manifestations in the one case, and exaggerated manifestations in the other; leading to mistaken estimates.
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Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.
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I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into, and I'll write myself out of their jam.
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When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony.
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I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.
