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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We don't have a lot more time to deal with climate change, ... We need the right balance between regulation and market-based approaches.
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When you wrap up your self-worth with your talent, and suddenly you might not be the most talented, that's really scary. And I think that fear is in part why I turned to comedy because I had no expectations of being a comedian. It was exciting to get good at something where I wasn't afraid of not being the best.
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May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them - then men are old.
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I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very much be a dialogue and performance piece, and it would take some very skilful direction - but not my kind of directing. But I thought it was a real literary work.
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Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating with her learning that studio executives were withholding her fan mail, she submitted her resignation. She withdrew it when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. convinced her that her role was too important a cultural breakthrough to leave.
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I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die
