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LUMEN PHOSPHOR FLUOR CANDLE! — Tony Kushner
Sorry wrong room. (Prior exits, goes to Belize.) PRIOR (Despairing): He's the Marlboro Man. BELIZE: Oooh, I wanna see.
— Tony Kushner
One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.
— Tony Kushner
I've always wondered ... what if it really was Him, and He decided I wasn't worth it?
— Tony Kushner
It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.
— Tony Kushner
The fountain of Bethesda will flow again. And I told him I would personally take him there to bathe. We will all bathe ourselves clean.
— Tony Kushner
God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.
— Tony Kushner
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In some ways [the Internet]'s definitely an enemy.
— Tony Kushner
In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.
— Tony Kushner
As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.
— Tony Kushner
I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.
— Tony Kushner
Roy: The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become. All else is vanity.
— Tony Kushner
You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go.
— Tony Kushner
Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.
— Tony Kushner
Purple? Boy, what kind of a homosexual are you, anyway? That's not purple, Mary, that color up there is mauve.
— Tony Kushner
Real love isn't ever ambivalent,
— Tony Kushner
Opium is the perfect drug for people who want to remain articulate while being completely trivial.
— Tony Kushner
I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.
— Tony Kushner
You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.
— Tony Kushner
I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.
— Tony Kushner
I don't know what will happen to me without you. Only you. Only you love me. Out of everyone in the world.
— Tony Kushner
YOU HAVE TO ASK HARD QUESTIONS.
— Tony Kushner
The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.
— Tony Kushner
I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me.
— Tony Kushner
It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.
— Tony Kushner
There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.
— Tony Kushner
JOE: You said my wife. And I want to know, is she - PRIOR: TALK TO HER YOURSELF, BULLWINKLE! WHAT DO I LOOK LIKE A MARRIAGE COUNSELOR? — Tony Kushner
I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.
— Tony Kushner
The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.
— Tony Kushner
At least I never voted Republican. -Tony Kushner
— Larry Smith
The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.
— Tony Kushner
Nothing's lost forever.
— Tony Kushner
My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can't despise my whole life.
— Tony Kushner
You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.
— Tony Kushner
The body is the garden of the soul.
— Tony Kushner
A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament.
— Tony Kushner
Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
— Tony Kushner
Children of the new morning, criminal minds. Selfish and greedy and loveless and blind.
— Tony Kushner
A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.
— Tony Kushner
People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.
— Tony Kushner
I've been so lucky to work with some great, great writers: Tony Kushner and Yasmina Reza.
— Marcia Gay Harden
Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.
— Tony Kushner
I played Laura Bush in a Tony Kushner piece, and afterward, I think my phones got tapped.
— Marcia Gay Harden
HARPER: I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die. But there's still the rest of you.
— Tony Kushner
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