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 found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.
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Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
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Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.
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If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think he'd gone 'round the bend. We don't need to do that sort of thing anymore, we'd say. We have better, kinder ways.
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It was a very happy time, but like all happy times it had no landmarks.
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By the time I reached 50, I'd accumulated many unresolved fears and desires.
