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'm not politically correct.
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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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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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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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One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
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Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.
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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.
