Tony Kushner Quotes

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

Tony Kushner

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I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.

John McGahern

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Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.

Anil Kapoor

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Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.

Andy Goldsworthy

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In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions.

Amitava Kumar

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There should be a law that there's a pajama day every few weeks.

Alyson Hannigan

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I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.

Simon Callow

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I embrace the term 'evangelical,' if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the world, caring for the environment, extending to the poor generosity and kindness, a hopeful outlook. That's a beautiful sort of thing.

Rob Bell

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I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach.

Roma Downey

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To make a difference, you have to have large aspirations.

Roshni Nadar

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I think, at first blush, the '60s always enticed me. There's something about the '60s, it's not hard to like it.

Demetri Martin

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I believe that everything you work at and want in life is a great challenge.

Anthony Rizzo

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Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

William S. Burroughs

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