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People Quotes by Tony Kushner
- 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…
- The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.
- 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…
- 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…
- The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers…
- The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're…
- One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being…
- As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.
- People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.
- I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go to Columbia, every…
- I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the first people I…
- You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle…
- I hate America. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote…
- Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone...Learn at least this: What you are capable…
- The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life…
- Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots…
- What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age…
- Opium is the perfect drug for people who want to remain articulate while being completely trivial.
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle