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 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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Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.
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It's tremendously undemocratic in a democratic society when you deliberately disenfranchise thousands of people.
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Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.
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Authentic journalism is telling people something that the government doesn't want them to know.
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I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.
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I have become that mother I used to dread.
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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.
