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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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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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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I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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It was growing dusk, the blue hour when solid things take on a certain transparency and phantoms become palpable.
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It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.
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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.
