Tony Kushner Quotes
You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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Everything can be satirized.
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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The hope that there she would manage to regain her happiness made her fearless.
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
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Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it the most.
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They trampled the world with their sick and twisted and crooked kind of love. The bastard didn’t think that anyone else’s love mattered at all. As if a father’s love knew everything, could see everything, could cure everything. And what would have happened if that man, Robert Lawson, had been allowed to keep his son? What would have fucking happened then? Men like him and Mando, they didn’t understand anything but their own imperfect hearts. That was their sickness—that they believed themselves to be the center of all light. That kind of light was a darkness of the land. A plague that was killing them all.
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You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go.
