Tony Kushner Quotes
I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.
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Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
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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.'
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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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.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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C Kalyan has been amazing and totally committed as a producer.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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To me, leadership has always been about doing what's right. Because when you've had to write your blood type on your boots, you aren't afraid to make the right calls.
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If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism.
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I want to graduate high school, so it's very important to me, and I'll be focusing hard on that as well.
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Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.
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Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then
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I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.
