Tony Kushner Quotes
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.
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Those who go along get along.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.
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I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.
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My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
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There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.
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I look in the mirror, my only opponent
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This world cannot break you—unless you give it permission. And it cannot own you unless you hand it the keys—unless you give it your heart. And so, if you have handed those keys to dunya for a while—take them back. This isn’t the End. You don’t have to die here. Reclaim your heart and place it with its rightful owner:
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So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.
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My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.
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In some ways [the Internet]'s definitely an enemy.
