Lynn Nottage Quotes
If you're looking at the people who head the institutions, there are very few African Americans or people of colour. I'm talking about the major theatres that position themselves as serving all audiences. What you find is, by and large, people who are shaping what we see, and the people who are the tastemakers are white.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
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No two wars are identical.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.
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Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.
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There are definitely a lot of creative people I want to work with. I wanna work with Drake!
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I overcame size with mechanics.
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If you're looking at the people who head the institutions, there are very few African Americans or people of colour. I'm talking about the major theatres that position themselves as serving all audiences. What you find is, by and large, people who are shaping what we see, and the people who are the tastemakers are white.
