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 love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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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 am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for.
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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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The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon.
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A lot of bodybuilders have high BMIs. It's not an indication of your overall health. Like, why put more standards on women saying there's a maximum BMI? I just think we need to be healthy, and I am.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue of other ants in a matrix of twigs. The circuits are so intimately interwoven that the anthill meets all the essential criteria of an organism.
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This moment was the apotheosis of the postmodern era - the era of images and perceptions. Wind conditions were also favourable; within hours, Manhattan looked as though it had taken 10 megatons.
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I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die
