Lynn Nottage Quotes

When I sat in rooms with middle-aged white men, I heard them speaking like young black men in America. They had been solidly middle class for the majority of their working careers, but now they were feeling angry, disaffected, and in some cases, they actually had tears in their eyes.

Lynn Nottage

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EyesMenAngryTearsBlackAmerica

I speak English. I grew up speaking Bengali. This is the normal, the known, the obvious composition of who I am. Then there's Italian, this strange, other component of me that I've just created. It was a creative process just to learn the language, never mind to start expressing myself in it.

Jhumpa Lahiri

MyselfCreativeI AmMindMeStart

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

Jo Brand

GoodPeopleBadKindSeenAlong

The Rosicrucians teach that all great religions have been given to the people among whom they are found, by Divine Intelligences who designed each system of worship to suit the needs of the race or nation to whom it was given. A primitive people cannot respond to a lofty and sublime religion, and vice versa.

Max Heindel

GreatReligionPeopleTeachRace

Just because you're a luxury brand doesn't mean you have to have an attitude.

Angela Ahrendts

AttitudeBrandLuxuryYouMeanJust

I listen to the older people who talk to me. I call them my old heads, people with a lot of wisdom. They'll teach you a lot if you listen.

Stefon Diggs

WisdomPeopleMeYouTeachTalk

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

Stephen Ambrose

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I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.

Ruth Wilson

LifeLoveSoulStrongEnjoyComplex

To suggest things may be going on in our brains that we aren't fully conscious of, that we unknowingly make classist, sexist and racist presumptions... Well, there just aren't many comfortable ways to take that. And in the face of discomfort comes the mask of defence.

Michaela Coel

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It's a deeper connection when you meet someone online and talk to them every day.

Michelle Phan

DaySomeoneYouConnectionEvery Day

I'm not sitting around saying, 'Man, I'd really love to direct a western.' That's just not something I'm probably going to do, mostly because I'm allergic to horses.

Josh Radnor

LoveManSayingSittingGoingJust

I played for four different clubs in France; I played for Marseille, which is one of the biggest clubs.

Dimitri Payet

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I have watched 'Project Runway,' but I'm not a devout watcher of it. But I think it's a great show, what I've seen of it, and I think Tim Gunn is a very positive, amazing guy.

Colleen Atwood

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