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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What I do is always hard for me to explain, but it's like a mixture of New Orleans jazz and world music, with a little bit of Spanish flavour. I just take all that and mix it with Chilliwack, and something comes out!
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Now, if they're there to talk about something specifically, and I determine through my own editorial judgment, that another area isn't germane, or isn't an important part of it, that's something else. But we never agree to anything in advance, absolutely not.
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In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present - the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.
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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.
