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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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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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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You often hear when you talk to guys in our industry, that this is my personality, I just turn the volume up, but over the years, I've really become me. No volume turned up, no nothing. I've been able to go out there and just be myself. It's through solid performance after solid performance that people just take you for who you are.
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Those numbers ay not sound like a bid deal until one reflects that average global temperatures were 'only' 5 degrees cooler at the height of the last Ice Age.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
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I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet...
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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.
