Lynn Nottage Quotes

Who wants to see the same play again? I certainly don't want to write the same play again and again.

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• I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Human
  • Laugh
  • Absurd

• I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Work
  • Always
  • Wanted

• But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Beginning
  • Everything

• The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • Good
  • Society

• Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Pretty
  • Acting
  • Stage

• I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.

  

  Iman
  • Way
  • New
  • New York

• If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Money
  • May
  • Strong

• As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Years
  • New
  • New York

• I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Men
  • College
  • Back

• If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kids
  • Practice
  • Better

• As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Truth
  • Perspective
  • Comedian

• People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • People
  • See
  • Privacy

• Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Time
  • Book
  • Think

• I was 16 when I auditioned for the series '8 Simple Rules.' They cast the kids first.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Kids
  • Simple
  • First

• To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Song

• Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Try
  • Reach
  • Ever

• Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Why
  • Death
  • Always

• My dad, Paul, is, like, my best friend.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Dad
  • Friend
  • Best

• All realities, all dimensions are open to me!

  

  Prince
  • Realities
  • Dimensions

• In Iraq, American administration said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction endangering mankind. With this pretext, the U.S. intervened militarily, and all they did is take control over oil fields, and oil wells.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Mankind
  • Destruction
  • Fields

• I got into theatre kinda late by some standards, and I sorta fell into it. I had broken my ankle playing football, and my high school was doing a production of 'Barnum.' I could juggle, and my mom really wanted to get me out of the house. She said since I wasn't playing football and couldn't wrestle, maybe I should audition for the show.

  

  Colin Donnell
  • School
  • She
  • High

• I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Firsts
  • Cities
  • Museums

• I was always different from people. Especially being from Kentucky, I always got made fun of.

  

  Miles Heizer
  • People
  • Different
  • Being

• Who wants to see the same play again? I certainly don't want to write the same play again and again.

  

  Lynn Nottage