Tony Kushner Quotes
A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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I would argue that Asean has been instrumental in driving both economic growth and political development, and that there can be no clearer example than its relations with Myanmar.
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I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
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Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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'Elle' is such an iconic magazine, and the intersection of fashion and music has always been something that fascinates me.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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How many people you know who can name every serial killer who ever existed in a row?
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I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.
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A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'
