Tony Kushner Quotes

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 into the park, you are aware there's a menace. That's costly on a psychic level. The world should be striving to make all its members secure.

Tony Kushner

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WomanWorldBlackHandsYouGay

I want to go to Australia and take the same goofy picture of me holding a koala that everyone else takes.

Jessi Klein

MePictureGoWantAustraliaSame

I'm like a conductor. I come up with ideas, and I get all these people to make great music together. I have a team of really talented assistant designers. I have architects in my office. People I trained from the beginning in menswear, womenswear, and home. I have a great team who know what I want and feel and translate that into beautiful results.

John Rocha

HomeMusicBeautifulGreatTogether

Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.

Trisha Goddard

ExerciseProfessionalSayAlwaysOh

My husband and I were very different: I'm spontaneous and emotional; I'm loud - he was exactly the opposite. But you need to be flexible.

Rita Moreno

HusbandYouFlexibleNeedEmotional

I've always summed up my definition of fashion as the way that people present themselves on the public stage.

Robin Givhan

PeopleFashionPresentWayStageUp

A real woman is someone who knows what she wants. If you want to stay home, that's fine, but you have to be clear-eyed.

Ruth Reichl

HomeWomanSomeoneYouWantShe

The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get.

Mike Leigh

GoodPerspectiveMePressureKnow

I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.

Judi Shekoni

LoveWritingRoadProcessDownWill

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

Joshua Chamberlain

FuturePlanKnowCannotMuch

I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.

Johnny Vegas

WorkPoliticsLionManRacismMe

You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.

Jonathan Coe

WritingImpactYouMadGoYour

I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'

Derek Blasberg

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