Lynn Nottage Quotes
Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.
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People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
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I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.
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When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.
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One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.
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President Trump's seeming renunciation of an anti-interventionist foreign policy is the great surprise of the first 100 days, and the most ominous. For any new war could vitiate the Trump mandate and consume his presidency.
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I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.
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I love basketball, but I miss football every time I watch it.
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In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy.
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If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
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If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.
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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.
