Lynn Nottage Quotes

The act of saying what you do helps shape you as an artist.

Lynn Nottage

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• Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • High
  • Today
  • Values

• Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Business
  • City
  • Identity

• Clinton saw himself much more as the steward of alliances and of consensus that moved in the right direction. He didn't see himself as someone who could change the overall thrust, I think, of global policy.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Think
  • Change
  • Direction

• You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.

  

  Usher
  • Great
  • Star
  • Personality

• I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Live
  • Like

• It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Time
  • Business
  • Lost

• I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Kids
  • You
  • Problem

• Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Great
  • Boat

• During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Men
  • Community
  • Service

• A woman's health is her capital.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Health
  • Woman
  • Capital

• Clothes are interesting and they're there to be played with. I like the idea of costume rather than fashion.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Interesting
  • Fashion
  • Idea

• When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Good
  • Like
  • Stage

• Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • You
  • Always
  • Old

• 'The Devil's Dictionary' reads like a collection of great Twitter posts. And as people do with tweets, they can swipe Bierce's best lines and recite them as nearly their own. The reflected glory of reposting.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Great
  • Best

• If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • American
  • Crazy
  • Acceptance

• I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn't even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Selling
  • Cabaret
  • Detriment

• I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Fashion
  • Shoes

• I feel like a famous Indian Chief of the Fagowee nations, who led his tribe for 40 years in the desert amidst starvation, hunger, famine, strife, plague - finally staggered up to the top of this mountain, drug crazed, looked out and pounded his chest and said, 'Where the fuck are we? Where the fuck are we?'

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Up
  • Famous
  • Mountain

• 'Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police' isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for 'Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away' or 'Last body part finally located'.

  

  James Nicoll
  • Up
  • Police
  • Gun

• Fear drives the wretched to prayer

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Prayer
  • Wretched

• The strongest statement ever made about women's rights appears on page one of the Bible. God's first words about his daughters established an indestructible foundation for women's rights because God anchored those rights in himself. By creating his daughters along with his sons in his image and likeness, God elevated every human being to the highest possible rank. Which means any mistreatment - verbal, emotional, or physical - of any woman or girl amounts to defacement of God himself, for she bears his image.

  

  Carolyn Custis James
  • God
  • Bible
  • Himself

• Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Doubt
  • Astronomy
  • Correction

• That's my boy, Obama. I'm rocking with him until the end, 'til the wheels fall off.

  

  Takeoff
  • Fall
  • Wheels
  • Rocking

• The act of saying what you do helps shape you as an artist.

  

  Lynn Nottage