Lynn Nottage Quotes
I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
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A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
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I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.
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A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.
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I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.
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Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
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An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
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I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.
