Tony Kushner Quotes
I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.
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If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.
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I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
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I'm 44, and I've never had a problem being gay, and maybe I dodged a lot of bullets, and maybe I'm one of the lucky ones. I want to make sure every kid can have that experience.
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Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
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I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.
