"When I teach writing, I always tell my……" — Tony Kushner
"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 if you don't think they're on your side, because then you start to yell at them or preach down to them."
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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 always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took…
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People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.
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