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Lynn Nottage Quotes

I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: 1964

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Mother Women Woman Survive Thought

'Terrible' is not a word I would use in shooting romantic scenes with Scott Speedman.

Romantic Shooting Terrible Would Use

I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies.

Jesse Eisenberg

Love People Reading Now Movies Hard

I don't play a character. It's totally just an extension of myself.

Character Myself Play Just Extension

I'm actually a fan of all of the EA Sports titles like 'Tiger Woods,' 'Madden,' and I'm really looking forward to buying 'NBA Street V3.'

Sports Looking Forward Woods Forward

I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm.

Nature Sky Sun Slow You Down

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.

Fear God Myself Day Me You

I don't write to a genre.

Music used to be a more personal thing, and it defined who you were. Now it's like wallpaper.

Music You Now Personal More Used

What you find when you live in the United States, you live in the West, is that when somebody fails, it's never their fault. They always like to blame somebody other than themselves for a failure.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Failure Live Blame You Find Never

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

Heart Achievement Innocence Violence

Here's the thing: If you don't want your kids to read a book, fine. You can tell them not to read a book, and maybe they will and maybe they won't. But you can't say what other kids can read.

Book You Say Want Will Tell

People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care.

Leader People Mind Thought Care

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