Lynn Nottage Quotes

If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.

You know, when you think about it, that’s kind of a weird thing. I mean it’s meant to be sympathetic, right? But it’s kind of not. Like you’re telling the person there’s nothing unique about what they’re saying I considered this as a couple of kids on Rollerblades whizzed past, hockey sticks over their shoulders. “Yeah,” I said, finally, “but you could also look at it the other way. Like no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.

I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.

I'm human, just like anybody else.

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

I am just like everyone else.

When you are in someone's home, in their bed, you see the world from their eyes. You understand 'the other' is not so other.

We are all ignorant, just about different things.

I think my perspective is unique, and I want to make sure that perspective is memorialized and preserved.

And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.

everybody has a story to tell

If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.

Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.

Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

What that’s allowed me to do is have a vantage point about my own life that's accessible to people still. I could see a guy walking down the street and be like, Even though I'm famous, I got more in common with this guy than, like, Brad Pitt.

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.

All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?

Life's gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it.

I think when I say universal, it means making a project that everybody can enjoy but also a project where they're getting closer to you.

Finally, I have someone that's like me. My other two pupils were the opposite sides of the moon. But this guy is on the same side of the moon, is on the same planet that I'm on.

Everybody can identify with somebody in the Hundred Acre Wood.

If we keep an optimistic view about the future, we definitely have to look for our place. Not to be redundant. And that means we have to emphasize what makes us unique.

I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.