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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My first job was as a groundskeeper at the local ballpark in the town where I grew up. There was a lot of down time, and I got to drive tractor, so it was pretty good gig. I've also taught creative writing, dabbled in reviewing and journalism, and toiled as a screenwriter.
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Israel was seen as having demonstrated unmistakably it wanted peace, and the reason it wasn't available, achievable was because Arafat wouldn't accept it.
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Our measure of rewards and punishments is most partial and incomplete, absurdly inadequate, utterly worldly; and we wish to continue it into the next world. Into that next and awful world we strive to pursue men, and send after them our impotent paltry verdicts of condemnation or acquittal. We set up our paltry little rod to measure heaven immeasurable.
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I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that it's a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He's not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world.
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Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
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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.
