Lynn Nottage Quotes
Like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, I try to balance reality with how we'd like the world to be.
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There is no must in art because art is free.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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I hate competition.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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'Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid.'
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If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.
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I guess I don't really know any other way to do it, it just feels like the natural way to do things for me. Like - if I'm writing a song - it has to have some sort of value. Or it only has some kind of value to me, if it's something really personal. It has to mean something to me. I guess it is a little uncomfortable, or it's a little embarrassing sometimes, to know that stuff that honest is out there. But, when I hand off the thing, when it's totally done and mastered and sent, I kinda feel like it doesn't belong to me anymore.
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When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
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Like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, I try to balance reality with how we'd like the world to be.
