Suzan-Lori Parks Quotes
Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.
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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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Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.
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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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The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.
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You grow up... you spend five years rooming with each other, and you're going to get sick of each other at times. And you're going to have some good times as well.
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And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.
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It is completely a God thing that I am here today because for the first 17 years of my life, I never thought I would ever do music professionally. I'd always liked what my dad did, but I never thought that I wanted to do it, just to be different.
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Everybody has their cliques, and I was very shy. I'm still very shy. Music opened up doors. I would get to my choir class, and I was sort of one of the better kids... I could read music. That's when I realized how good El Coro de San Juan was. I felt, for once, like, hey, I can fit in.
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Open your heart and mind like the wings of a butterfly. See then how high you CAN fly.
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Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.
