Lynn Nottage Quotes
I think that human beings were incredibly resilient; otherwise, we wouldn't keep going.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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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.
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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.
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I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.
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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.
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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.
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I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.
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I am all about comfort and whatever comes along with comfort. I wear a lot of sweats. But I'm also very preppy naturally.
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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.
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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.
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I'm the kind of person who always wants more.
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In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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The sexiest thing about a bikini is that it leaves something to the imagination, which is the best part.
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Voice-acting, on the fun meter, is off the scale. You show up, you don't have to be all primped up, or dressed up. And you get to work with some amazing people, and goof off for four hours.
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The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.
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Morality is not respectability.
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It is okay to be yourself, it is okay to color outside the line if that is who you are.
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Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.
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I think that human beings were incredibly resilient; otherwise, we wouldn't keep going.
