Lynn Nottage Quotes
As a woman of color, slowly and with some coercing, the not-for-profit theaters around the country are beginning to recognize and embrace the power of our stories, but with regards to Broadway and other commercial venues, we remain very much marginalized and excluded from that larger creative conversation.
Quotes to Explore
-
Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
-
All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
-
What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
-
I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
-
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
-
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
-
I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
-
You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
-
Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
-
You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
-
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
-
I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
-
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
-
There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
-
The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
-
It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
-
I'm the kind of person that if I try to throw it hard, it doesn't come out as good. So my whole thought process is to stay smooth, stay on top of the ball, and just get my hand out in front.
-
Human affairs require some combination of moral commitment with disciplined political action. And that is what keeps me intrigued and challenged and wanting to influence events.
-
And I say, 'Yes, you look wonderful tonight.'
-
'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't go back to the way it was after 'The Simpsons' came out.
-
The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
-
Remove the fear, and the answer comes into focus.
-
As a woman of color, slowly and with some coercing, the not-for-profit theaters around the country are beginning to recognize and embrace the power of our stories, but with regards to Broadway and other commercial venues, we remain very much marginalized and excluded from that larger creative conversation.
