Tony Kushner Quotes
My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.
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Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
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Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.
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A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
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We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.
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My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.
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I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'
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For the rest of my life, I realise people are going to ask questions of me, but at the end of the day, I am a clean athlete, and I have worked hard.
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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The poet creates it; the people by recitation recreate it. Poet and reader (hearer) are moments of the same reality.
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Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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There's a lot of people in this world, and it's important to learn about them.
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My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.
