Suzan-Lori Parks Quotes
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I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.
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Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.
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How many different works of art have been inspired by 'Don Quixote?' Thousands. Most people enter the novel, for better or worse, through the musical the 'Man Of La Mancha.'
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We will expect to cop it and we'll cop it sweet.
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Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.
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A jump shot can get you a shoe deal, a big house, a supermodel, fancy cars, a bunch of yes men, a Swiss bank account. But none of these things can get you a jump shot.
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Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.
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Oh, I do get lonely, yes.
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I have no scene, I go everywhere, I adapt.
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while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.
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Going first is courageous. I'm just talking on a spirit level now.
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There are those who make music and movies in a linear way: They plan them, they have a script. Of course, you have to have a script sometimes, but that alone isn't enough.
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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I wish I could say something classy and inspirational, but that just wouldn't be our style. ... Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory... lasts forever.
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I knew exactly what I wanted to do since I could remember. As a kid, if my friends came round after school for dinner, I'd put on shows; I'd write plays and charge the parents £1.50 for a ticket for sweetie money.
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It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.
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The plays should have the half-life of plutonium.
