Lynn Nottage Quotes

I think that human beings were incredibly resilient; otherwise, we wouldn't keep going.

Lynn Nottage

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• It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Good
  • Truth
  • News

• Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • Important
  • Father

• Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Lucky
  • Admit

• Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Life
  • Live
  • Courage

• When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Movie

• Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.

  

  K. A. Paul
  • Right
  • Call
  • Muslims

• I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Great
  • Philosophy
  • Too Much

• I am all about comfort and whatever comes along with comfort. I wear a lot of sweats. But I'm also very preppy naturally.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Comfort
  • Preppy
  • Sweats

• I never, never lend any of my own clothes for parts any more because you lose your clothes; they become the characters' clothes, and you can never wear them again.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Never
  • Lose
  • Clothes

• In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Man
  • Attention

• What I really honestly want is just to be working steadily... I would love to just be on a great TV show and have it run for awhile.

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Great
  • Love
  • Want

• I'm the kind of person who always wants more.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Person

• In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Leader
  • Aids
  • Therapy

• Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • High
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• David Mamet's writing is pretty spectacular, obviously. I like the honesty of it; I like how funny it is and how sad it is.

  

  T. R. Knight
  • Writing
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Up
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Every time there's a list of the 100 greatest records of all time, all those albums were recorded in two days. Hardly any of them took a year, I'll tell you. In this day and age, I think it's important that people know that.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.

  

  William Scranton
  • Giving
  • Energy
  • Morning

• For those who unfairly lump Social Security in with Bernie Madoff, in all fairness, you should point out the difference. No one was ever legally required to pay money to Madoff.

  

  Addison Wiggin
  • Difference
  • Pay
  • Madoff

• Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.

  

  Carol Bellamy
  • Work
  • Children
  • Help

• To be seen to be human, provided you're doing your job at the same time, is definitely not a negative, not at all.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • Time
  • Job

• Write drunk; edit sober.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Drinking
  • Drunk

• I think that human beings were incredibly resilient; otherwise, we wouldn't keep going.

  

  Lynn Nottage