Tony Kushner Quotes
The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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Geek and Sundry has an eclectic line-up of shows all targeted around things I love: Comics, Tabletop Games, Books and more.
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Good material is good material.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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I'm fighting hard; I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over people to get where I'm going, and I would really like to give back, especially to my mom, who was there for me when I was a kid.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.
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Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.
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My family is basically Gypsies - for real.
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Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.
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There is something addictive in space that makes you want to go back - like the mountain climbers who want to go back to the Himalayas although their fingers were cut by frostbite.
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When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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In order to work well, markets need a basic level of trust.
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My mother gave me one piece of advice that stuck with me. She said don't forget where you came from.
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Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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I find the experience of keeping a journal much more creative on paper than on a computer. When I write, I'm physically immersed in the world and slow down, whereas on screen, I use my senses in a less engaged way - and I skim more.
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The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.
