Lynn Nottage Quotes
It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get it to the people.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn, however, that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives have shaped them and impacted them to be who they are, it's something. I mean, that's my entire life.
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Being yourself is fun because you're one of a kind and no one else can be you.
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...makes my TV work look professional.
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It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get it to the people.
