Lynn Nottage Quotes
I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past.
Lynn Nottage
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
Taylor Negron
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
Ugo Betti
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
Mandy Patinkin
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
S. Truett Cathy
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After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
Calvin Coolidge
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I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.
Fisher Stevens
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As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.
Samantha Power
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I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.
Patrick deWitt
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The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as we make it, so it seems to be entirely free. It seems to be completely up for grabs. But of course it's not.
Samantha Harvey
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I think there's a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures.
Victoria Justice
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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
Nat King Cole
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If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'
Caity Lotz
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Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
Nadine Gordimer
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In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.
George Clooney
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As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.
Taiye Selasi
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The more you mature, you realize that this imperfections make your more beautiful.
Beyonce
Destiny's Child
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I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past.
Lynn Nottage
