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Jewell Parker Rhodes Quotes

I think it's always natural for children to rebel against their parents and establish their own identity. And also, I think parents get invested in, you know, doing the right thing? And so their anxiety about being good parents might, in a way, affect a relationship negatively.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1954

Topics

Good Relationship Children Identity

So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody.

Problem Enough Burn Want Audience

That's the scary part about TV, how you'll feel about it in six years.

Feel You Scary Years Six How

I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong.

Wrong Cannot Comprehend Fundamentally

Oh boy, I grew up hearing Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson, sitting on Mahalia Jackson's lap in my dad's church.

Soul Church Sitting Boy Hearing Up

Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.

Work You Before Invent

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

Kind Principal Month Demand Eight

Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.

You Fall Know Up Something Like

I am a very sporadic watcher of television. I don't watch a lot of it.

I Am Television Watch Very Lot Am

I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.

Think Artist Back Kind Way Virtue

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

New Race Human Active Always Over

I don't do impressions.

In my own writing, I avoid 'female' and try to say 'woman' because I feel that the word 'female' has connotations of not just biology but also non-human mammals. The idea of 'female' to me is more appropriate for a female animal.

Woman Animal Me Writing Biology Say

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