"So I think I'll say the obvious thing:……" — Tony Kushner
"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. You can make a film of it. But it's not the production. It's not the same thing."
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Tony Kushner
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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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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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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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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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All is Ephemeral, fame and the famous as well.
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If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we…
— Johannes Kepler
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Before the discovery of these [underwater] vents, all life on Earth, the key to life on Earth, was believed to…
— Mike deGruy
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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth…
— George Santayana
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Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Ask yourselves this question: How often is Jesus inside and knocking at the door to be let out, to come…
— Pope Francis
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And that works for me. So that if this is it, you better take it at its right proportion. That…
— William Shatner
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Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is…
— William E. Simon
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In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The…
— Georges Cuvier
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Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair
— Judith Light
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Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.
— Emilio Estevez
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