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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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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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the product of a huge mistake.
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A society that puts equality — in the sense of equality of outcome — ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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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.
