Lynn Nottage Quotes
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.
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I think if you have a good night's sleep, you can take on the world.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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I find British men very gentlemanly... like opening doors. There is a certain chivalry about British men which I like, and I'm a sucker for an accent.
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God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
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I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.
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While our bipartisan establishment worships diversity, Trump saw Middle America recoiling from the demographic change brought about by Third World invasions. And he promised to curb them.
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When they put me on ESPN and they talk about negative things, or when they put me on TMZ and they talk about negative things, I'm just glad that I'm relevant; to have lasted this long being relevant.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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What’s our excuse today for not voting? How do we so casually discard the right for which so many fought? How do we so fully give away our power, our voice, in shaping America’s future? Why are we pointing to somebody else when we could take the time just to go to the polling places? We give away our power.
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Most of the time I sit down with my guitar or at the piano, and I play for awhile until I get a new riff or groove that I like a lot. Then I'll concentrate on building around that line of thought by adding words and textures. At first I'm only trying to please myself, and hopefully what I like will appeal to others.
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I am not a man of etiquette, I don't know manners. I simply call a spade a fucking spade, because that's what it is.
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That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.Life is ridiculous.
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Woo ah, mercy mercy me.Ah things ain't what they used to be, no no.Where did all the blue skies go?
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I love acting. I'm able to express myself and not get made fun of for it.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.
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Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.
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I'm a schizophrenic writer.
