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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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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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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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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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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I started watching so many different types of women, saw all the complexities of them, all the ways and the look and shapes they could be, and I felt it was missing for me in American film. I didn't see anybody I was watching in movies that felt like me. I felt rather tortured and lonely about it.
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Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhyme of things not found within recorded time.
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When I picked up the guitar for the first time, it opened up a whole new world for me. I became obsessed with writing and playing.
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I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.
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Whether in light touches or for a more glamorous look, I never go out without make-up - even if it's only a lick of mascara. And I always wear perfume, a light or more intense version.
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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.
