Lynn Nottage Quotes

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

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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

• Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Control

• Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Review

• 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

• While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Married
  • Texas
  • August

• 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 live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Family
  • Die

• I can't imagine that life can be replaced with a computer universe. I can't accept it.

  

  Alexander Mamut
  • Life
  • Universe

• I'm gonna catch you with your head down tonight. I'm gonna take it off.

  

  Zac Rinaldo
  • Hockey
  • Tonight

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

  

  Lynn Nottage