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.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Child

• 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.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Care

• 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.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Love
  • Forget
  • Ability

• 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.

  

  Omar Epps
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Work
  • Value

• 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.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Why
  • Success
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Great
  • Sad
  • Congress

• To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Others
  • Copy
  • Pathetic

• Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Happy
  • You
  • Be Happy

• I like the language in Proust but not the context.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Language
  • Context

• I never looked good in a bikini. My legs were too thin.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Good
  • Never
  • Legs

• 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.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • You
  • Best
  • Voice

• Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • For Him
  • Succeed
  • Love Is

• 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.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Father
  • Small
  • Health

• 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.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Different
  • Done
  • Career

• I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Rich
  • Fascination

• Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Up
  • Like
  • Kid

• Like Christians, Soccerians argue that you should not judge the essence of their faith by the loopy activities of its followers. But the Beautiful Game is in fact quite the opposite. It is badly designed and riddled with flaws.

  

  Craig Brown
  • Game
  • Beautiful
  • Faith

• Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpent-like qualities is to be sentimental, anemic and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Jesus
  • Qualities
  • Antithesis

• I think every physiotherapist will tell you that it's not a very good idea, and there are many musicians in the metal scene who have suffered severe damage - like, the guitar player from Iced Earth, Jon Schaffer, had severe neck problems due to headbanging.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • Musicians
  • Damage
  • Guitar Player

• You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.

  

  Milos Forman
  • Happened
  • England
  • Czechoslovakia

• 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.

  

  Lynn Nottage