Tony Kushner Quotes

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

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• I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Think
  • Reason
  • Movies

• To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Business
  • Better

• Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Hilarious

• I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Remember
  • Cats
  • Philadelphia

• I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Crazy
  • Speak
  • Voice

• So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Words

• The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Winter
  • Oil
  • Juice

• I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Why
  • Want
  • Body

• All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

  

  Tacitus
  • Things
  • All Things
  • Rome

• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • School
  • Greatest

• The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Style
  • English

• After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.

  

  Becca Fitzpatrick
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Running

• The French complain of everything, and always.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Always
  • Everything
  • Complain

• If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • President
  • Word
  • Will

• I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Good
  • Work
  • May

• If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Think
  • Forever
  • Young

• To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Why

• I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • People
  • Men
  • Movement

• God’s truth is this: abortion is murder.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Truth
  • Murder
  • Abortion

• I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Money
  • Why
  • Job

• I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Human
  • I Believe
  • Navigation

• There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Kind
  • Fundamentals
  • Irresponsibility