Tony Kushner Quotes
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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I want to help people; that's it.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
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PETA doesn't want stressed animals to be cruelly crowded into sheds, ankle-deep in their own crap, because they don't want any animals to die-ever-and basically think chickens should, in time, gain the right to vote. I don't want animals stressed or crowded or treated cruelly or inhumanely because that makes them probably less delicious.
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My idols are all older.
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It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.
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Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for Being.
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I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die
