Lynn Nottage Quotes
I teach at Columbia, and I'm always looking for books I can lose myself in during the 45 minutes I'm on the train.
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
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I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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I never looked good in a bikini. My legs were too thin.
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The Chinese government attaches importance to, and protects, human rights. We have incorporated these lines into the Chinese constitution, and we also implement the stipulation in real earnest. I think for any government, what is most important is to ensure that its people enjoy each and every right given to them by the constitution.
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Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
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I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.
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I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.
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Many say our world is at a tipping point. If we do not act together, if we do not act responsibly, if we do not act now, we risk slipping into a cycle of poverty, degradation, and despair.
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When your dad comes back from a faraway land with bows and arrows and spears wrapped up in a carpet... that's cool.
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I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn't happen.
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I'd rather go to hell than be in purgatory...
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I teach at Columbia, and I'm always looking for books I can lose myself in during the 45 minutes I'm on the train.
