Tony Kushner Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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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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For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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Why did the mushroom go to the party? Because he's a fungi!
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I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.
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Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.
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You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.
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I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.
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Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.
