Lynn Nottage Quotes
Ultimately, we're incredibly resilient creatures. People really do get on with the business of living.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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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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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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I find the business world hard.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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The book I'm working on next, which will be my fifth, returns to literary history. I really do love literary history, and I have plenty more ideas on it.
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I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever?
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The gay community has been so faithful and good to me.
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Theater, for me, is no longer a conversation about how we destroy each other; it's much more about how we may be destroying everyone else.
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The pure perfect truth of life is that we are here to create heaven on earth, to bring the perfection of what is above down to us, and in doing so to become transformed as human being into something great and beautiful.
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Ultimately, we're incredibly resilient creatures. People really do get on with the business of living.
