Lynn Nottage Quotes
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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Peyton Royce and Billie Kay are two phenomenal workers; I would love to see them up here on Smackdown. They're great girls with great talent. A bit of momentum, and we're going to see amazing things from them.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
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I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.
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I work real hard so the reader doesn't have to. I don't want them to have to look up words.
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I'm happy with the way '100 Bullets' ends terribly.
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Thus he had a double thought: the one by which he acted as king, the other by which he recognized his true state, and that it was accident alone that had placed him in his present condition.
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A committee is an animal with four back legs.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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By the time I reached 50, I'd accumulated many unresolved fears and desires.
