Lynn Nottage Quotes
When you begin a play, you're going to have to spend a lot of time with those characters, so those characters are going to have to be rich enough that you want to take a very long journey with them. That's how I begin thinking about what I want to write about and who I want to write about.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
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Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in that subject - which is a wonderful relief.
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I have no new voices - they've all been used.
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I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing, for in the broader melting pot we get to look at some of these self-destructive attributes that we bring to bear upon our own quarrels and begin to solve them in ways other than just splitting apart.
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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
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If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
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As far as the creative side of making great, great albums and really trying to go down in history? I don't see that happening lately, you know what I mean? You have a lot of guys is talented, but at the same time, timeless music is more important to me.
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I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.
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Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?
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My friends are still the guys I met 40 or 50 years ago.
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My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my career between when I was 45 and 49 years old. That's when most people are in their twilight, waiting to get to the Champions Tour. And that's when I made most of my hay.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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When you begin a play, you're going to have to spend a lot of time with those characters, so those characters are going to have to be rich enough that you want to take a very long journey with them. That's how I begin thinking about what I want to write about and who I want to write about.
