"In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity."

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Source : "Lynn Nottage's 'Ruined,' 'Fabulation' open". Interview with Robert Hurwitt, www.sfgate.com. February 27, 2011.

Lynn Nottage

#War Quotes #Roles Quotes #Normalcy Quotes

“It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.”
“Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“The pounding music, the cheers, the admiration work their way into my blood, and I canâ€™t suppress my excitement. Cinna has given me a great advantage. No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire.”
“I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions; I don't believe this machine age gives full satisfaction in a spiritual way, if the term may be allowed.”
“In truth, â€œExtremely Loud & Incredibly Closeâ€ isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness. This is how kitsch works. It exploits familiar images, be they puppies or babies - or, as in the case of this movie, the twin towers - and tries to make us feel good, even virtuous, simply about feeling. And, yes, you may cry, but when tears are milked as they are here, the truer response should be rage.”
“I'm not afraid to take on somebody or say something that somebody will find offensive because unfortunately in comedy, you can't say anything really good without offending somebody.”

Source : "George Lopez Discusses His New Late-Night Talk Show". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 26, 2009.
“Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water.”

Source : Sigurd F. Olson (1969). “Open horizons”, Alfred A. Knopf
“If you can't trust the Bible's history, how can you trust its morality?”

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