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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You are the most important thing in your life. Put yourself at the center of your life.
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Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.
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Whenever anyone sends me a link to a band, saying, 'These guys sound exactly like Soundgarden,' it's always some super simple sludge riff with a singer that sings high and screechy. And it's really awful.
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I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.
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I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.
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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.
