Suzan-Lori Parks Quotes
Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.
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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 love writing songs.
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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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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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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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I love De la Renta. I love CoSTUME National; I think they're just incredible. And I love Marc Jacobs, too - they're also great, just a great brand.
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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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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
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Where there is love there is life.
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People ask what I really did in the three years between 'The Dreaming' and 'Hounds of Love.' I spent it with my family, living a normal home life.
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The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.
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Nature's crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.
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I'll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again.
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Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and you like what you like. But I felt like with 'Pride,' certainly when it was released in America, there were certain things that went on with the marketing where I though we're pandering to whatever the vibe is of that area.
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I believe that shows should be shot where they take place.
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Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.
