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• A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament.

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  Mean, Play, Lasts

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• I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

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  Gay, Men, Facts

  "Abraham Lincoln Gay? Tony Kushner Explains Why Biopic Excludes Lincoln’s ‘Lavender Side’" by Meredith Bennett-Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2012.

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• I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

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  Confusing, Wish, Would Be

  Tony Kushner (1993). “Angels in America: a gay fantasia on national themes”

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• Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.

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  Book, People, Advice

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• What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age wanted heroes. It got us instead: carefully constructed, but immobile. Subtle but, unfit to take up the burden of the times. It happens. A whole generation of washouts. History says stand up, and we totter and collapse, weeping, moved, but not sufficient.

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  Hero, Voice, People

  Tony Kushner (1994). “A Bright Room Called Day”, p.67, Theatre Communications Group

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• I don't know what will happen to me without you. Only you. Only you love me. Out of everyone in the world.

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  World, Without You, Happens

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.283, Theatre Communications Group

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• My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.

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  Despise, Whole Life, Whole

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.81, Theatre Communications Group

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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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  Bye, Secret, Citizens

  Tony Kushner (2003). “Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika”

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• The body is the garden of the soul.

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  Garden, Soul, Body

  Tony Kushner (1993). “Angels in America: a gay fantasia on national themes”

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• The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.

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  Brother, Husband, Writing

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• I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other than going to your desk and writing, when every closet is reorganized and you've called your oldest living relative twice in one day to see what she's up to and there isn't an unanswered e-mail left on your computer or you simply can't bear to answer another one and there is no dignity, not a drop left, in any further evasion of the task at hand, namely writing, well, you can always ask your dentist for a root canal or have an accident in the bathtub instead.

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  Running, Writing, Hands

  "We Call That Failure Art" by Tony Kushner, www.newyorker.com. October 31, 2013.

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• The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.

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  Writing, People, Political

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• The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle overlapping stories.

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  Nashville, Stories, Influence

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• The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

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  Love Is, People, Giving

  "Tony Kushner's Paradise Lost" by Arthur Lubow, www.newyorker.com. November 30, 1992.

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• I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.

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  Writing, Bars, Balls

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• Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.

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  Unions, Humans, Human Society

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• Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.

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  Gay, Important, Culture

  "Tony Kushner, Radical Pragmatist". Interview with Ben Greenman, www.motherjones.com. November, 2003.

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• God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.

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  Play, Actors, Week

  Interview with John Moore, blogs.denverpost.com. January 31, 2010.

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• I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

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  Awkward, Shy, Quiet

  "Tony Kushner's Paradise Lost"by Arthur Lubow, www.newyorker.com. November 30, 1992.

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• It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.

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  Deals, Barack

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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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  Sound, Noise, Computer

  "Kushner's 'Lincoln' Is Strange, But Also Savvy". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. November 15, 2012.

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• There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

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  Play, Way, Illusion

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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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  Historical, Research, Historical Research

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• But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country.' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud.

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  Mother, Country, Thinking

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• I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it's a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded in complexity and richness that I won't even be bothered by the opinions. I'll make my own mind up.'

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  Art, Thinking, Historical

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