Lynn Nottage Quotes
The person whose work introduced me to the craft was Lorraine Hansberry. The person who taught me to love the craft was Tennessee Williams. The person who really taught me the power of the craft was August Wilson, and the person who taught me the political heft of the craft was Arthur Miller.
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Funny is an attitude.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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There is no one true church.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It means that you are entirely free to create what you want, provided you are aware of how the nonphysical law of cause and effect works.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.
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Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.
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I never drove in England. I rode bicycles. So driving is terrifying.
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Iran is an island of stability in a turbulent corner of the world...
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Sisters, when about their work, should not put on clothing which would make them look like images to frighten the crows from the corn. It is more gratifying to their husbands and children to see them in a becoming, well-fitting, attire, than it can be to merely visitors or strangers.
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The person whose work introduced me to the craft was Lorraine Hansberry. The person who taught me to love the craft was Tennessee Williams. The person who really taught me the power of the craft was August Wilson, and the person who taught me the political heft of the craft was Arthur Miller.
