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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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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I think, over the time that you're in the league, you learn what your body needs: you learn the amount of soft tissue work you need, the amount of dry needling, or the amount of sleep or your nutrition. You also understand that you have to pull back.
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I think people who basically do one thing like Eric Clapton is great. But I've always enjoyed playing different kinds of music and playing with different kinds of musicians because I find that really interesting, like learning and working with Kip Hanrahan. There's a great conga player called Milton Cardona and he taught me a lot of the nuances, he's a Santeria Priest and so he knows his onions as it were.
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I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.
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I would be a fool to lose my heart to him, but I am tempted more each day.
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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.
