"One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid... One wants... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?"

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Source : Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.31, Theatre Communications Group

Tony Kushner

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“It's a dream of mine. I worked very, very hard for many years. But the reality is, it's slow coming ... I think we're still a generation away from that.”
“It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.”

Source : "My week: Christopher Hampton" by Christopher Hampton, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.
“Jesus never consults your past to determine your present.”
“A lot of things drive me. What it comes down to is that I want to be the best.”
“And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers”
“There's always that key to every character that lets you go to those places you need to go to. No matter how much you might hate the character, it makes you understand it.”

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“You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely complicated machine designed to carry out the extremely simple task of constructing your soul.”

Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.103, Vintage
“Artists are often having very similar conversations across the various disciplines through which they choose to excel, but you rarely see them exist in the same pages or spaces.”

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