Lynn Nottage Quotes
I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative.
Lynn Nottage
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
Olivier Martinez
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In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
Yuliya Snigir
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
Orison Swett Marden
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
Ida B. Wells
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African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
Naveen Jain
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My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.
Tamara Tunie
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
Ted Kotcheff
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The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.
Randall Kennedy
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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
Zebulon Pike
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When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.
Rand Paul
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I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.
Fernando Alonso
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Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die everyday in childbirth . . . Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.
Ban Ki-moon
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I was 15 on American Idol, and everybody had something to say. It was like I had my really awkward phase on national television, you know?
Lauren Alaina
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I'm coming from a small town in Quebec where, at that time, there was no Internet, and the way to be in contact with movies were those American fan magazines like 'Fantastic Films' and 'Starlog,' and I still remember the shock, the impact of seeing the first frames, the first pictures coming out of 'Blade Runner.'
Denis Villeneuve
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Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
Oscar Wilde
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Education has always been very important to me. It means you don't have to depend on anyone else.
Priyanka Chopra
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I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative.
Lynn Nottage