Lynn Nottage Quotes

It's very easy, when we're reading those articles on the 20th page of 'The New York Times,' to distance ourselves and say, 'It's someone else.'

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• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Small
  • Light
  • Cooking

• I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Like
  • Things
  • Repeat

• I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Way
  • Dog
  • Wrong

• I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Child
  • Tree
  • Physical

• I've always been extremely physically active.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Always
  • Been
  • Active

• A lasting architecture has to have roots.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Architecture
  • Roots
  • Lasting

• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Die
  • Dinner
  • Obligation

• I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• There will never be talking pictures.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Never
  • Talking
  • Pictures

• You never get every job you want.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Job
  • Want
  • You

• I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Time
  • Own
  • Cinema

• In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Feet
  • Swimming
  • Bricks

• Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Confidence

• I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Blues

• I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Purpose
  • Step

• I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Baby

• How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• My mom and dad always taught acting, so instead of getting me babysitters, they would just bring me to class.

  

  Blake Lively
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents insisting that dear Octavia has a reading age of 28. I remember trying to read 'In Cold Blood' at the age of twelve, and realising that just because you can read book doesn't mean you should.

  

  Meg Rosoff
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Remember

• As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• My music is my No. 1, and I've got people who believe in me and keep me going. I'm thankful.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.

  

  Johnny Rivers
  • People
  • Sick

• It's very easy, when we're reading those articles on the 20th page of 'The New York Times,' to distance ourselves and say, 'It's someone else.'

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Reading
  • Distance