25 Quotes & Sayings By Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter. He has written six plays for the Broadway stage, as well as the film Schindler's List (1993). He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and received an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Hours (2002). He is the recipient of two Tony Awards, four Drama Desk Awards, three Obie Awards, and five Christopher Awards Read more

His work has been translated into more than forty languages.

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The Great Question before us is: Are we doomed? The Great Question before us is: Will the Past release us? The Great Question before us is: Can we Change? In Time? And we all desire that Change will come. Tony Kushner
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You can't live in the world without an idea of the world, but it's living that makes the ideas. You can't wait for a theory, but you have to have a theory. Tony Kushner
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I try to tighten my heart into a knot, a snarl, I try to learn to live dead, just numb, but then I see someone I want, and it's like a nail, like a hot spike right through my chest, and I know I'm losing. Tony Kushner
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It can be very hard to accept how disappointing life is, Harper, because that's what it is, and you have to accept it. With faith and time and hard work you reach a point where ... where the disappointment doesn't hurt as much, and then it gets easy to live with. Quite easy. Which ... is in its own way a disappointment. Tony Kushner