Suzan-Lori Parks Quotes
I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.
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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
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The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.
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I like the idea of working my way up. I don't feel impatient to immediately jump into something that could literally bring down a studio if I don't do it well.
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You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.
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I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody down – no matter what you do, you're always going to have haters.
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My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.
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The constant influx of new cultures, new ideas and new ways of looking at old problems is a big part of the reason why America has been the most dynamic economy in the world for well over a century.
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I usually eat a salad for lunch and before a game since it keeps me feeling healthy and energized on the field. I love piling on the toppings: the more colorful the better! I usually do nuts, fruit and avocado, but I also mix up my creations with different toppings and lettuces.
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There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.
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My children are unaffected by me being an actress because that's the way I like to keep it. I love the fact that they are so innocent about my star status. Sometimes, they come running to me and say, 'Mom, you are on TV.'
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We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.
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Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that's because most people there have never seen it get serious.
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Fashion is for women without style.
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As you set off into the world, don't be afraid to question your leaders. But don't ask too many questions at one time or that are too hard because your leaders get tired and/or cranky.
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I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.
