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 first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
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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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I am a gypsy. I havent' had a home for a long time. Call me a homeless person - I just throw everything in a bag and I'm good to go.
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When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practice that prompt repression of resentment and aggression.
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No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.
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I learned a long time ago that if you subscribe and believe the good, you have to believe the bad. My measure is my heart and what I know.
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The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.
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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.
