Tony Kushner Quotes
I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.
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Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
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As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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We still have our people working in the cane fields in the Dominican Republic. People are still repatriated all the time from the Dominican Republic to Haiti. Some tell of being taken off buses because they looked Haitian, and their families have been in the Dominican Republic for generations. Haitian children born in the Dominican Republic still can't go to school and are forced to work in the sugarcane fields.
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John Kerry is busy trying to raise money right now for his campaign. It was reported today that Kerry's hoping to raise $80 million before the Democratic convention. That's a lot of money. Yeah, Kerry has two ways to raise the $80 million: soliciting Democratic donors and going through his wife's purse.
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When somebody asks me what a song or a line is about, I feel like I'm not done writing it yet.
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I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.
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When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
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I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.
