208 Quotes by Tony Kushner

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

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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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    A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

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    I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

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    I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the first people I knew who'd gotten the AIDS virus. I had a dream of him in his bedroom with an angel crashing through the ceiling. I wrote a poem called 'Angels in America.' I've never looked at the poem since the day I wrote it.

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    I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go to Columbia, every time I went into the subway I was absolutely astounded because you see people from all over the world who actually live here - who aren't just here as tourists.

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