Lynn Nottage Quotes
In listening to the narratives of the Congolese, I came to terms with the extent to which their bodies had become battlefields.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.
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At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
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I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.
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Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.
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If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.
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In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.
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In listening to the narratives of the Congolese, I came to terms with the extent to which their bodies had become battlefields.
