Lynn Nottage Quotes

I always describe race as the final taboo in American theatre. There's a real reluctance to have that conversation in an open, honest way on the stage.

Lynn Nottage

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I've been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career.

Jill Soloway

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When you see me on TV, that's about as close to my real personality as you can get.

John Cena

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My mom really raised me, so I took her name before I ever thought about having a career. It was for personal reasons. My birth name is actually Max Deitch.

Max Casella

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Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.

Amanda Lindhout

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I'm not a crazy Vegas guy. I'm not a gambler.

Steve Carell

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It was implanted in me that I came from a different class - an elevated class. I was cushioned by servants. I don't remember doing anything for myself. I only played and went to school.

Spike Milligan

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I like to work. I believe that work helps us find our self worth.

Ruth Reichl

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Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.

Joyce Meyer

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In this business, you have a hierarchy of stars. Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks - you name 'em, they can play any part they want. Guys like me who are somewhere down in the middle of the pack, that's a different story. I can do things in the theater that I can't do anyplace else.

Brian Dennehy

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Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of the human being in the world and imagination, all coming together.

Ali Smith

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There was a time when all that mattered was that you were in a good movie.

Winona Ryder

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The roots of India's soft power run deep. India's is a civilization that, over millennia, has offered refuge and, more importantly, religious and cultural freedom, to Jews, Parsis, several varieties of Christians, and Muslims.

Shashi Tharoor

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