Lynn Nottage Quotes
I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.
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Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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On my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain.
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A Decade of Laughs (2004)
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I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed.
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My mother is quite a woman. She would push me, and when I got tired of her pushing, I'd say: 'Leave me alone. Don't push so much.'
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My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.
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I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.
