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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A lot of people don't know that the Go-Go's came from the L.A. punk scene.
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I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good people, but only if bad things happen to them. Which is weird, isn't it?
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Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.
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America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
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Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.
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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.
