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.
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My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
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It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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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.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.
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Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.
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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.
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I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.
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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.
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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.
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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
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The alchemy of a fight card is a mysterious thing. Even the most meticulous matchmaking can sometimes misfire.
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I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.
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The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.
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I was beginning to hope someone would attack me.9
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Realistically, I shouldn't be able to turn a doorknob without having some discomfort.
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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.
