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.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
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I love Canada. Canada is a great neighbour. Canada has been a great friend and neighbor for many, many years.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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A 'Friends' shoot night could extend well into the small hours of the morning.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.
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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.
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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.
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I don't honestly have the time or energy to support anybody else's cause but my own, which is self-expression. So I guess, if I had a cause, it would be education.
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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.
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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.
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I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other.
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I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.
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I'm not a natural-born actor. So it's been a very slow learning curve for me.
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This is a game, first and foremost. There was only one Vince Lombardi, and he died.
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My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.
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My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.
