"As a playwright, you are a torturer of……" — Tony Kushner
"As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people."
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92 Quotes by Tony Kushner
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There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past,…
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Real love isn't ever ambivalent,
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If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with
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The body is the garden of the soul.
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It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.
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Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.
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I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t…
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The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a…
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The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is…
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You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read…
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Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites...some of the best acted and…
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I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to…
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