A Quote by Lynn Nottage

I am a storyteller by trade. — © Lynn Nottage
I am a storyteller by trade.

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I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.
We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. And that's where I put myself: as a storyteller. Not necessarily a high priestess, but certainly the storyteller. And I would love to be the storyteller of the tribe.
Working with Robert, Robert [Elswit] is a storyteller. He's not a cinematographer, he's a storyteller. And to me, that's the graduation I hope to get to in my profession. That I'm not just an actor, I'm a storyteller. And I think that takes a long time in, when you have one job on a movie set. Makeup artists, actor, whatever. To graduate from just that to storyteller.
I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.
I think spending a lot of time with my mom, who's a talker and a storyteller, and my dad, who has kind of a soft-spoken, understated sense of humor, I think that's how I became what I am, which is sort of an understated storyteller.
I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?
I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.
I am not anti-trade. I am pro-trade. But I am pro-sensible trade.
The trade is so easy for me. It's so obvious what's happening when our companies are flocking out. I am going to fix our trade, I am going to bring jobs back to America.
You turn the computer into the storyteller and the player into the audience, like in the old days when the storyteller would actually respond to the audience, rather than just having the audience respond to the storyteller. I had an enormous amount of fun, actually, working on that.
I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two things, but that's who I am.
I am totally in favor of trade. But I want trade deals for our country that create more jobs and higher wages for American workers.
I am a very big proponent of opening the borders with India. Most of our trade is done through unofficial channels. Why not open the trade?
I am more than a black guy. I am a person, I'm storyteller, I'm a son, I'm a friend, so I am all those things, so it is frustrating, to a degree, to be limited by other people's perceptions of me, but at the same time, it is true that I am a black guy, and, you know, it's like I'm rooted in but not bound by.
I must confess that although I am quite passionate about the books I create for children, I am not the best oral storyteller. In fact, I stink at it.
I'm a storyteller. If I have that on my precis when I go, 'Storyteller,' I'm satisfied with that.
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