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Suzan-Lori Parks Quotes

The writing of 'Topdog' was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: May 10, 1963

Topics

Great Me Writing Gift Feel Play

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

Joan Jett

Good Walk You Want Out Stomach

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

Jerry Saltz

History Culture Possibilities Now

I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.

Matthew Perry

Name Attention Up Twice Been Really

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Angela Carter

Dance Joy Sing

Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places.

John Searle

Think Body Student Places Active

If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.

Robin Gibb

Heart Death Brain World You More

When you spend three months of your life doing a movie, it's important to enjoy yourself.

Mary Steenburgen

Life Yourself Doing Enjoy You Three

My allegiance was always to the act. I wanted them to be happy. I wasn't owned by a magazine or a record label. And I was a very naughty boy to boot!

Mick Rock

Happy Be Happy Boy Naughty Always

It's definitely an exciting time to be an actress.

Lisa Nicole Carson

Time Exciting Actress Exciting Time

The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.

Judith Rossner

Work Writing Interesting More Real

I started really noticing, more and more, how men will plagiarize and take credit for women's work... I've noticed that it just happens a lot.

Dolores Huerta

Work Women Men Credit Will More

People have almost been lulled into complacency because there are no signs over the water fountains. But the signs have been in the policies. There's still housing discrimination and wage discrimination.

Dee Rees

Water People Complacency Housing