Lynn Nottage Quotes

For me, playwriting is sharing my experiences, telling my stories.

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• I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Help
  • Care

• And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Doubt

• America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Political
  • Middle

• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Trust

• If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • First
  • Short
  • Hear

• Everyone looks adorable singing with James Corden.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Singing
  • Looks
  • Everyone

• Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Fall
  • Balance
  • Yourself

• All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Life
  • Myself

• Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, both in the taking of the pictures and in their presentation.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Work
  • Dignity
  • Presentation

• It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Wise

• For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Music
  • Everything
  • U.S.

• My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Family
  • Enough
  • Successful

• In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Tax
  • Income
  • Income Tax

• I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'

  

  Laura Riding
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Nature

• We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• Life, struck sharp on death,Makes awful lightning. His last word was, 'Love–'Love, my child, love, love!'–(then he had done with grief)'Love, my child.' Ere I answered he was gone,And none was left to love in all the world.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Life
  • World
  • Done

• Hate has no place in the house of God.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • God
  • House
  • Hate

• I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.

  

  Adriana Lima

• I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.

  

  Anthony Mackie
  • People
  • School
  • Job

• I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting.

  

  Nahum Goldmann
  • Life
  • Money
  • Two

• Most people don't see half of what's in front of them. Your visual cortex does a shit load of imaging processing before the signal even gets to your brain, whose priorities are still checking the ancestral Savannah for dangerous predators, edible berries and climable trees. That's why a sudden cat in the night can make you jump and some people when distracted, can walk right out in front of a bus. Your brain just isn't interested in those large moving chunks of metal or the static heaps of brightly colored stuff that piles up in drifts around us. Never mind all that, says your brain, it's those silent fur-covered merchants of death you've got to watch out for.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Brain
  • Dangerous
  • Silent

• Israeli and U.S. interests often run parallel, but they are not the same. Israel is concerned with a neighborhood. We are concerned with a world of 300 million Arabs and a billion Muslims. Our policies cannot be the same. If they are, we will end up with all of Israel’s enemies, who are legion, and only Israel’s friends, who are few.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Up
  • World
  • Friends

• For me, playwriting is sharing my experiences, telling my stories.

  

  Lynn Nottage