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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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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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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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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Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.
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When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.
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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
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When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games.
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I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.
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I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.
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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.