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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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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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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You would think there were 'Straights Only' water fountains the way Democrats carry on so (as if any gay man would drink nonbottled water)
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If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more challenges, more whatever, and they will be compelled by it.
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I was always a secretary in the early days, before we decided we were brave enough to join Equity and see if this thing has any legs.
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Christopher Reeve so completely inhabited the character Superman when he was in that costume, and that had such a huge effect on me as a child, watching those films back in the '70s. There was so much of that character that was, for me, Superman.
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I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.
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It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.
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Part of me always longed to do just one more film and see what Luke would be like now that he's on the level of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the student having become the master. But it was not meant to be.
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I think that human beings were incredibly resilient; otherwise, we wouldn't keep going.
