Lynn Nottage Quotes
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
Mackenzie Astin -
Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
Natalie Wood -
Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
Ed Markey -
There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
Wangari Maathai -
I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
Rachel G. Fox -
One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.
Nathaniel Rateliff
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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
Jack Welch -
I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
Gary Johnson -
I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
Garrett Morris -
I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.
Ted Stevens -
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
Eamon de Valera -
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
Garcelle Beauvais -
The train system in India is chaotic and fun - it's the best way to see the landscape. Being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colourful experience you'll never forget.
Natalie Dormer -
I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
Rachael Ray -
In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.
Dana Perino -
Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.
Ina Garten -
Ronald Isley is a musical genius.
R. Kelly
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It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.
John Hope Franklin -
Unlike the current occupant of the White House, he has no difficulty in orally extemporising a series of grammatical English sentences, each containing a main verb.
Boris Johnson -
I love fragrance for the pure fact that I think it's something that women utilize in a way to make themselves feel good, and I think this idea that we do it for men or for other people is such a misconception.
Charlize Theron -
In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.
Lincoln Chafee -
The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.
Asne Seierstad -
Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture.
Lynn Nottage