Lynn Nottage Quotes

It remains an incredible struggle for women in theater, and, in particular, playwrights and directors, to get their work seen and to not only get seen, but to get it to Broadway.

Lynn Nottage

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• With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Try
  • Gentleman
  • To Be

• Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • Work
  • Profit

• And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Business
  • Create
  • Brand

• I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Great
  • Real
  • Wish

• I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Friends
  • Movie
  • Choose

• I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Music
  • Simple

• If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Part
  • Turn

• I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • New York
  • Keep Going

• Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• The most challenging thing is people do see me as a tennis player, but I've had a lot of opportunities because I am a tennis player. And I don't mind that.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Mind
  • Player

• I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Like
  • Never
  • Something

• Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for permission to use the text, I was refused, which was disappointing.

  

  Kate Bush
  • World
  • Song
  • End

• New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • Energy
  • City
  • Young

• As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Pain
  • Child
  • Young

• I'm not unmindful of man's seeming need for faith; I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniel's. But to me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • God
  • Together
  • Night

• There will always be kids in every generation that understand that Lady Gaga is not music, it's theater.

  

  Butch Trucks
  • Music
  • Kids

• My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Mind
  • Freedom
  • Change

• A lot of our music came out of a lot of weird psychology and weird emotions. When you play the whole body of work, you get tossed all over the place. It's not easy listening. It's not even comfortable to listen to.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Work
  • Music
  • Listening

• It remains an incredible struggle for women in theater, and, in particular, playwrights and directors, to get their work seen and to not only get seen, but to get it to Broadway.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Work
  • Women
  • Struggle