Tony Kushner Quotes
The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
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Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
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I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
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I'm an international actor, but at the same time, I'm also a Bollywood actor, even though most of my career has been abroad. However, I've always kept in touch with Hindi cinema.
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Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.
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I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel more bloated and gross but that's what you do to get the toxins out of your system. I put a little lemon in the water bottle that I carry around with me or drink a cup of hot water with lemon. It's a natural diuretic.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; often, they end up just saying that views other than their own should not even be discussed. I find that frustrating. There is no intellectual progress without considering lots and lots of different views.
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.
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I know that some people feel that cooking is time consuming, but cooking is an activity that you can do for yourself and you'll be in good condition to do all the other things that you want to do in your life for a very long time.
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Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.
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We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is no way of manipulating our environment that is without cost or consequence - and thus also of a recognition that we are inextricably bound up with the destiny of our world. There is no guarantee that the world we live in will "tolerate" us indefinitely if we prove ourselves unable to live within its constraints.
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Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
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If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't try to avoid that.
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The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.
