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 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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A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
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There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.
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Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. And there’s an opening convey of generalities. A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.
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Daniel Cormier has been a model champion. He will be a champion for the rest of his life.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
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I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die
