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Lynn Nottage Quotes

Like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, I try to balance reality with how we'd like the world to be.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: 1964

Topics

Balance World Reality Try Like How

Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.

Courage Perspective Step World Rest

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

People Me Thought Civilization Lot

It is impossible to insure that there is a zero percent chance of any kind of foodborne illness anytime anyone eats anywhere.

Impossible Chance Kind Illness Zero

I've never believed it's a fiction writer's job to create an exact replica of the past, a diorama the reader can step right into. But it is my responsibility to learn everything of the world I'm writing about, to become an expert in the politics and history that formed my characters' identities.

History Responsibility Politics Job

God is being taken out of schools; children are not being raised in church learning the word; many parents are living lives unto themselves, exalting substance rather than Jesus Christ, and those looking for answers are going to church and finding the word is not being preached. There are consequences to these decisions.

Learning God Children Parents Church

You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.

Pain You Results Judging Hiding

Anything that is related to my work will affect me. If someone tells me they didn't like my performance, it will affect me.

Work Me Performance Someone Will

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

Hope Humor American Sense Of Humor

What a ball from Frank. Frank and I go back years. He used to do that when I was at Ajax.

Dennis Bergkamp

Back Go Years Ball Used He

Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because they emphasize harmony.

Great Value Conflict Harmony Place

I do not think it feasible to examine the phenomenon of hatefulness without being hateful.

Think Without Being Hateful Feasible

The Clean Air Act of 1970 was designed to control air pollution on a national level by authorizing the development of comprehensive regulations to limit emissions.

Christine Todd Whitman

Control Pollution Development Limit

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