Tony Kushner Quotes
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
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My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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I don't think there is anyone who knows Bosnia-Herzegovina better than him. He is deeply trusted in the country. The international mission is in save hands.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.
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Do you think it's a good idea to be sarcastic about slavery?
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It's very important to learn quick lessons from your failures, very important to recognize symptoms of failure pretty early, and it is very, very important to not to be attached too much to the idea - you have to know when to give up an idea.
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Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.
