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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Life does not measure up to performing... Performing is perfect.

Joan Rivers

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Jerry Orbach was the first person to take me to the Friars Club. It's a beautiful building, and you walk into these halls of comedic history and meet these old cats who could tell you a million stories about how things went down in New York City.

Jesse L. Martin

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I can't wish I weren't something that I am.

Jenna Bush

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Whenever I write, I try and approach my stories from some kind of universal theme or idea or emotion.

Jeff Nichols

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Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.

Meryl Streep

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Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.

Sissy Spacek

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If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled.

Robert Caro

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One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult.

Roy Romer

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I think that as television is evolving, the line between TV and film is becoming more and more blurred. This is both a good and bad thing.

Miguel Sapochnik

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My father was - actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychologist. My mother is Jewish, so I grew up in a mixed background. But the common denominator was certainly music, and that was sort of emphasized in my household as music being sort of the spiritual force.

Joshua Bell

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I feel a lot of guilt about the freedom that being an artist provides. I ask myself, 'Why am I not the guy emptying the trash, why am I the guy who is watching the guy empty the trash?'

Jason Molina

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Owning my identity... ties into my value of dignity.

Chelsea Manning

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