Tony Kushner Quotes
So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it. You can make a film of it. But it's not the production. It's not the same thing.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
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You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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To go back means defeat.
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Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
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He made some plays, we came up short on defense. That's the bottom line. There are no excuses. I'm not blaming the coaches or blaming the calls.
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I love stretching in the morning. It's the first thing I do when I wake up because getting a good back-crack is so extremely satiating. I feel taller when I finally stand.
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I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.
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I think intimacy is a word that's used more physically than it needs to be. There are times in your life, sometimes it's when you fall in love with someone and sometimes it's when someone saves your life.
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So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it. You can make a film of it. But it's not the production. It's not the same thing.
