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Tony Kushner
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 16
Author
Music Pedagogue
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
Anthony Robert Kushner
Anthony R. Kushner
Nothing
Forever
Lost

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When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create go through something like this. You willfully loosen some of the inner straps that hold your core together.
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We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.
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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.
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We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.
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I think that it's worthwhile to explore the ways in which you write the person that's writing your plays as opposed to simply assuming that it's all a natural process and there's no design in it. Because your public persona is designed, to a certain extent, and you can have fun and profit at various times doing that.
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You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.
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Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites...some of the best acted and directed work to be found on American stages, engaging with the canon of world dramatic literature in a vigorous way.
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I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.
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Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.
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If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with
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The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.
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A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.
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As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.
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We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do.
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Here's the thing about politics: It's not an expression of your moral purity and your ethics and your probity and your fond dreams of some utopian future. Progressive people constantly fail to get this.
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The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.
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Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.
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The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.
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You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.
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I love reading it's a great way to avoid writing.
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