Suzan-Lori Parks Quotes
Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.
Quotes to Explore
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The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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I love Chicago.
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It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
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I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'
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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
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When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
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Where there is love there is life.
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We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.
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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
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When employees feel anonymous in the eyes of their managers, they simply cannot love their work, no matter how much money they make or how wonderful their jobs seem to be.
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Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
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I love Alexander Wang!
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History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
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I love my dad, and I'm proud to be his daughter.
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I'm having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it's moving backward, and I think there's a similar feeling with everyone of my age and in the world of music and artistic stuff. Art is an important way those feelings get expressed and help people process their feelings and opinions.
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Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.
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There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
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You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you have bowled a good ball and he walks across and hits it for two behind midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just waves it around like it's a toothpick.
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Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.
