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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It is in this sense that Franklin says, 'war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.'
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It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.
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Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.
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If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.
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Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.
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I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.
