Lynn Nottage Quotes
If the Tony Awards want to remain relevant in the American theater conversation, then they need to embrace the true diversity of voices that populate the American theater.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
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The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.
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People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important.
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If the Tony Awards want to remain relevant in the American theater conversation, then they need to embrace the true diversity of voices that populate the American theater.
