Quote by Tony Kushner
A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social p

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, Uncle Toms Cabin and, in modern drama, Larry Kramers The Normal Heart. – Tony Kushner

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The kind of theater that I do is sort of narrative realism, which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Loris plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist. – Tony Kushner

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Success
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I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. Im not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations. – Tony Kushner

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movies
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Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution. – Tony Kushner

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History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit. – Fustel de Coulange, La Cité antique, 1864

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History, as long as it continues to happen, is always another chance. – R. Jackson Wilson

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History

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations. – Queen Elizabeth II

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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Modesty and unselfishness – these are virtues which men praise – and pass by. – André Maurois, Ariel, 1924

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Lord, let me live until I die. – Will Rogers

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