Tony Kushner Quotes

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• There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there's only…
• Real love isn't ever ambivalent,
• If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with
• The body is the garden of the soul.
• It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.
• Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.
• I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support myself…
• 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…
• The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet people…
• You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.
• Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites...some of the best acted and directed work to be found…
• I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other than going to…
• The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.
• I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.
• Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see new work. For…
• I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things…
• I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't…
• Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at…
• I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling…
• When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create…

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