Lynn Nottage Quotes

I'm a schizophrenic writer.

Lynn Nottage

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• I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Want
  • Number
  • Object

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Girl
  • Just
  • Jennifer

• I think if you have a good night's sleep, you can take on the world.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • World
  • Good
  • Night

• 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!

  

  Veronica Roth
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Reading

• One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Great
  • Stupid
  • Poet

• 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.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Man
  • Mirror

• 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.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Men
  • Find
  • Doors

• God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Men
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Remember
  • War
  • Childhood

• 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.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • America
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Me
  • Things
  • Negative

• If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Education
  • Beginning
  • Advice

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Why
  • Power

• 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.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Words

• 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.

  

  Rajneesh

• That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.Life is ridiculous.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Life

• Woo ah, mercy mercy me.Ah things ain't what they used to be, no no.Where did all the blue skies go?

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Blue
  • Mercy

• I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • People
  • Believe
  • Fun

• But in that we started so many things in that moment, we brought to their ends many others that have been the subject matter of this account, and so here is where I draw a line across the leaf and call it the end.

  

  Neal Stephenson

• Investors do seem to be comfortable with the Koizumi agenda. The fact that there are ever clearer signs that he is going to be returned is going to provide the yen with support.

  

  Ian Stannard
  • Support
  • Investors
  • Agenda

• I think if you come straight on honest as much as you can, eventually that turns into success. Maybe not as quick as you'd like.

  

  Jennifer Warnes
  • Success

• Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs,” sighed George, patting the heading of the map. “We owe them so much.” “Noble men, working tirelessly to help a new generation of law-breakers,” said Fred solemnly.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Men
  • Help
  • Law

• I'm a schizophrenic writer.

  

  Lynn Nottage