Tony Kushner Quotes
I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much. Except for Poe.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
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Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation.
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Whose starward eyeSaw chariot 'swing low'? And who was heThat breathed that comforting, melodic sigh,'Nobody knows de trouble I see'?
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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There are times I'd like to be incognito, be someplace where I might not stand out.
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I saw a video on YouTube of a girl who had very similar reactions to late-stage Lyme disease as I did. And I thought it was crazy. And when I saw her basically have a seizure on camera that looked very much like my seizure I felt, "Oh my god. That's me." And so it was really important to me, and I said to Sini, 'We have to find some way to not just talk about Lyme disease, but to show it.
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You remain the more than natural figure. You Become the soft-footed phantom, the irrationalDistortion, however fragrant, however dear. That’s it: the more than rational distortion, The fiction that results from feeling. Yes, that.
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I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much. Except for Poe.
