Suzan-Lori Parks Quotes

My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.

Suzan-Lori Parks

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• When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Smart
  • Intelligence
  • Dolphin

• We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Know
  • Same

• I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Band
  • Said
  • Going

• You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Want
  • Yourself

• It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Easy
  • Started
  • Getting

• A 'Friends' shoot night could extend well into the small hours of the morning.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Small

• I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Happy
  • Poetry

• My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Parents

• I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Eyes

• Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Man
  • Words
  • Universe

• The first thing I do is brush my teeth - we like to start the morning with fresh breath - and put on my pajamas and meander down to the kitchen for a glass of orange juice. No coffee. No caffeine.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Morning
  • Start
  • Coffee

• When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beautiful clip of Billie Holiday playing with a bassist, a pianist and Gerry Mulligan, who was a friend of mine, on baritone sax. At one point, she looks over at Gerry, and they just smile. When those moments happen, it's just lovely.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Friend

• 21st-century activism is different perhaps in the sense that the individual can be more present in the process, especially via social media, but the underlying drivers remain the same as desire to change the status quo.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Different
  • Desire
  • Present

• For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Long
  • Path
  • Unique

• I feel like my art is very eclectic. I have taken my favorite things - be that costume designing, fashion sense, music and video editing - and I threw them all into one big clump. And that's what I do.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Music
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other.

  

  Al Oerter

• There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • World

• I have a lot of girlfriends. That's sort of my whole thing is, I have really, really deep friendships, more so than anybody I've ever met.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Deep
  • Friendships

• I'm a very, very disciplined person.

  

  Marina and the Diamonds

• It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Lost

• I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.

  

  Mario Cantone
  • Rude

• I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don't necessarily try to put on a show. That's what my father's thing was, and he was great at it. Everything I say is because I feel it, and it comes out of my mouth. It's not scripted.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Great
  • Different
  • Father

• One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.

  

  Jeff Raikes
  • Great
  • Father
  • Opportunity

• My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.

  

  Suzan-Lori Parks
  • Father
  • Library
  • Moved