Lynn Nottage Quotes
The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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I get homesick.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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I like to do Pilates.
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There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.
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The many ways of getting content for free have slashed the profits of the professionals in their respective fields.
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If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.
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I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.
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The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long.
