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Lynn Nottage Quotes

In listening to the narratives of the Congolese, I came to terms with the extent to which their bodies had become battlefields.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: 1964

Topics

Listening Become I Came Which Came

I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Experience People Find Person Try

I give celebrity my undivided indifference. Now that it's here, there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. And people who complain about celebrity and any kind of privilege are, all of them, whinging morons, and they should keep their first-world problems to themselves. I feel very strongly about that.

People Problems Feel Wrong Now Kind

When you're in the back of the pack, you can gamble a little bit more.

Michael Andretti

You Back More Little Gamble Pack

As a Manhattan resident, I'm gutted by what certain landlords are doing, pushing folks who have lived in their apartments for decades out of their homes, as a greedy tactic to get more rent from newer tenants. It's one of the most disgusting, inhumane things I've ever witnessed in my beautiful city.

Beautiful City Doing More Rent Out

I'm just blessed, man, to be able to represent solidarity with the small schools I went to.

Man Blessed Small Solidarity Just

I used to be an atheist, but I've chilled out a bit on that.

Atheist Out Used Bit Chilled

I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what was going on. I remember going out there and looking in the mirror and thinking I wasn't anything.

Roscoe Mitchell

Mirror Myself City Looking Thinking

My mother said that we're so lucky to be women. It's not that men are weak. Men are men. We're two completely different animals.

Diane von Furstenberg

Mother Women Men Said Animals Lucky

The Stratocaster is like the Rolls-Royce. It can never be surpassed.

My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.

Good Influence Energy Become Hard

In 2008, I just decided that there will come a time when I am dead and gone, and I only have a body of work to show. That was when I did films like 'Last Lear' and Deepa Mehta's 'Heaven On Earth.' They were serious roles.

Work Time I Am Body Heaven Earth

As a younger person, I was obsessed with Ray Bradbury, and I think his stories did more to shape me as a storyteller than anybody else - even though, when I read them now, a lot of them seem overly sentimental. But that's probably the writer that I've thought about the most, even though I don't necessarily like a lot of his work.

Work Me Think Thought Person Now

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