Lynn Nottage Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.
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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.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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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.
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Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.
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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.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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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.
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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.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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Clothes are interesting and they're there to be played with. I like the idea of costume rather than fashion.
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While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
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When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'
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Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
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'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.
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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
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Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.
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Definitely, I'm always nice. Sometimes I wish I could be naughty, I'm just a little too boring.
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I'm seldom right, but I'm never in doubt.
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Don't stop. Keep right on going. Hitch up your trailer and go to Canada or down to Old Mexico. Head for Europe if you can afford it, or go to Mardi Gras. Go someplace you've heard about, where you can fish or hunt or collect rocks or just look up at the sky. Find out what's at the end of some country road. Go see what's over the next hill, and the one after that, and the one after that.
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The act of saying what you do helps shape you as an artist.
