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You Quotes by Tony Kushner
- 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…
- 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 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…
- You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think…
- When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't write…
- So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it.…
- The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle overlapping…
- 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…
- If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are…
- You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render…
- 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.
- You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.
- But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me,…
- 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'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…
- If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and you can't go…
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — 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