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Tony Kushner Quotes

I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'

Tony Kushner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Writing Political Say Kind Write

When I make a record with My Morning Jacket, I love what those guys do, so I don't have a need to play bass or drums or anything, because we're doing that as a unit.

Jim James

Love Morning Doing Play Jacket Need

I'm friends with people that probably would describe themselves as socialists and people that are much more conservative than I am. I can always find a middle ground.

Meghan McCain

I Am People Friends Find I Can More

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

Maurice Chevalier

Women Relationship Men Wit Always

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.

Alvar Aalto

Work Good Simple Man Harmony Street

I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'

Steve Perry

Beautiful Myself Better Friends Play

I don't eat fish and chicken and all that. But I will have some eggs. So I'm not technically a vegan. But I eat pretty sensibly, and before a tour, I will usually work out a lot. I'll get a trainer, or I have a guy I've known a long time.

Tom Petty

Work Time Fish Long Long Time Will

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.

Mitt Romney

Work People Negative Political Long

I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.

Don Nickles

Happen Who State Local Believes

If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues, like restoring prosperity to the middle class, dealing with the perennial problem of health care in the United States. He talked a lot about the budget deficit, about the need to transition to clean energy.

Christina Romer

Health Energy Think Care Problem

Writers want to be reread. They want to think that their words don't just flash by but deserve some reflection.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Reflection Words Think Want Deserve

You cannot overstate, I don't think, the impact of a show like 'Glee' on a generation.

Wilson Cruz

Think Impact Generation You Show

Film, I think, is my medium.

Pia Zadora

Think Film I Think Medium