Suzan-Lori Parks Quotes
Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.
Quotes to Explore
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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I'm quite fluent in Telugu now, but there's a difference between talking and dubbing. While dubbing, the diction must be in sync with the emotion in the scene and would impact my performance.
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
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My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
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Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
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Josh Brolin is fascinating to watch because he is just so effortless. It's like watching a really gifted athlete run, and I just didn't have that.
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Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.
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Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.
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You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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Most of leaders in Philippine politics come from rich family.
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I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for?
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Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal father when he was with us. We would get grounded if we did something bad. He would ground us. He wouldn't call it grounding; he'd just say, 'You're on punishment.' Sometimes we'd be on punishment a lot.
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If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, `Aren't I clever?' .. If a story is funny and it actually happened, the big message is, `Isn't the world funny?' And actually I think that's a better message. I kind of want to think that about the world -- and it sounds less like boasting.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.
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At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.
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An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey.
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When you're dealing with a big amount of money, you should have your own accountant and your own lawyer.
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Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.
