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Tony Kushner Quotes

I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

Tony Kushner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: July 16, 1956

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Believe Think Better Debate Place

For some reason, I was deeply ashamed of the theater early on. I think it had to do with this growing sense I was gay, although I couldn't have put a word to it back then.

Joe Mantello

Think Back Early Gay Growing Reason

No human being should be a role model. We all have flaws.

Jim Brown

Flaws Role Model Human Human Being

I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.

Megan Park

Teacher Growing Up Acting Growing Up

My family owned a furniture/appliance store near Kingston, Jamaica. I worked there all summer but lived in a very structured environment the rest of the year at an all-girl Catholic boarding school.

Ann-Marie Campbell

Family School Rest Environment Year

Discovering how to spend leisure time well, especially during a time of austerity, could be as important in the effort to reduce crime as having extra police on the streets, and increasing the population of concert halls may actually help decrease the population of prisons.

Stephen Hough

Time Police Effort Help Important

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

Truth Water Broken Oil Always May

In the current climate motorists have a long list of issues from which to choose to raise on the doorstep. Policies aimed at reducing emissions - like the changes to Vehicle Excise Duty or here in Manchester the proposals for congestion charges - are not without controversy.

Lucy Powell

Long Choose Duty Changes Without

I'm a romantic. I like romantic movies.

Chris Evans

Romantic Movies Like

I have connected by phone with customers who have left negative reviews and had a chance to get to know them. Not only was I able to solve their problems, a lot of the customers were so happy with the customer service that they become repeat customers.

Chris Gronkowski

Service Happy Chance Negative Phone

Science fiction is boring when someone starts explaining the science to me.

Colm McCarthy

Science Me Someone Boring Fiction

I hope that I am out of the music business when I meet God.

Chubby Checker

Business Music God Hope I Am Meet

Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.

Annie Lennox

Feel Person Him Awe Humbled I Feel