Lynn Nottage Quotes
Once working people discover that, collectively, we have more power than we do as individual silos, then we become an incredibly powerful force. But I think that there are powers that be that are invested in us remaining divided along racial lines, along economic lines.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Women just love to shop.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America.
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My wife and I love to travel, so if we don't have work on either her or my birthday, we definitely travel.
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I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
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Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.
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Once working people discover that, collectively, we have more power than we do as individual silos, then we become an incredibly powerful force. But I think that there are powers that be that are invested in us remaining divided along racial lines, along economic lines.
