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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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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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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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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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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Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.
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Nora Roberts, Stephen King, Lee Child and George R. R. Martin write wildly different books. Their writing, plotting and styles have little or nothing in common. But they all write books and characters that readers find appealing.
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No news is good news. No journalists is even better.
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I am definitely a west London girl.
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You just need to be honest with how you're feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, 'Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They're gonna call me incompetent. I'm going to lose my job. I've got to be tough, it's a man's world.'
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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.
