Tony Kushner Quotes
The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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Each color lives by its mysterious life.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.
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And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.
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Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.
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One has to weigh all of one's values always in relative terms. On the upside, you get people who are not acting on their homosexual attraction, who are avoiding the sin of practicing homosexuality. On the downside, you have destroyed marriages, traumatized children, and dead people who have taken their own lives.
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We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't know if we all have those gifts for restraining our emotions... or whatever it is he does.
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I always wanted to write a book about a common food that becomes a commercial commodity and therefore becomes economically important and therefore becomes politically important and culturally important. That whole process is very interesting to me. And salt seemed to me the best example of that, partly because it's universal.
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The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.
