Lynn Nottage Quotes
Broadway's never my end goal because of the plays I write. These are tough plays. Of course there's a lot of humor, but my goal is just to reach as wide an audience as possible, however that happens.
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I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
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Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
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Get rid of the preferences and the special deductions and the loopholes... and invest in getting the tax rate to a competitive level so we stop seeing companies move off shore.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.
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We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
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Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.
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When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.
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Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.
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It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we do know that on September 25, 1778, he wrote her a love letter - much of it an exact copy of one he'd sent to another woman six months before. But if the overheated rhetoric was recycled, Arnold's passion was genuine.
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Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei.
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Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social justice does is destroy individual responsibility.
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Boy, it is not fun suffering in this body of weak flesh, but Jesus is straightening out all my crooked places.
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As long as I feel like I'm helping kids get better, I don't see why I should stop.
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The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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At every meeting, I mention that if I am doing something personally that gets in the way of progress for the company - or something needs to change - please come and tell me.
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You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.
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Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.
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A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness.
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Broadway's never my end goal because of the plays I write. These are tough plays. Of course there's a lot of humor, but my goal is just to reach as wide an audience as possible, however that happens.
