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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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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Money without brains is always dangerous.
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At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the bodies, and the remaking of the bodies.
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Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.
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Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.
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I find if you are in an office, the crisis finds you. If you're not in the office, the crisis finds somebody else.
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To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band'... He is the great imaginer of our time. He knows not only our greatest fears, but also what delights us, what turns us on, and what is truly holy in the world. Haunting, bizarre, beautiful.
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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.
