Suzan-Lori Parks Quotes

My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, there's a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.

Suzan-Lori Parks

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MusicTruthSpacePeopleBlackKind

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

Johannes Kepler

NatureGreatDiversityMindRich

I was like a waitress that got a job once in a while, and then Stifler's mom happened, and everything changed.

Jennifer Coolidge

JobMomEverythingChangedHappened

I love Martin Amis.

Maura Tierney

LoveI LoveMartin

You can get a bit bored of finding out about yourself. I know nothing about politics, for instance. There's nothing that's stopped me picking up a newspaper in the past, and it's something I really should start to do.

Sophia Myles

PoliticsPastYourselfMeStartYou

I have learnt to be even more patient.

Roger Federer

MorePatientEvenLearnt

It makes me nuts, the idea that if you put a political struggle at the heart of your book, then it has to be that the author - me - is trying in some way to push my views onto my readers.

Ruth Ozeki

HeartStruggleMeBookPushYou

My personal opinions on any subject are really not relevant, not important, and to the extent that I might inject them, I am acting improperly as either a District Court judge or as an appellate court judge.

Maryanne Trump Barry

I AmJudgeOpinionsActingPersonal

I didn't know anything about the Angels when I first got there. But they really are a good organization.

Mike Trout

GoodOrganizationKnowAngelsFirst

The word 'mixology' adds $3 to the price of any drink.

Jon Taffer

PriceDrinkWordAnyAdds

When you see 'Star Wars', and you see Greedo hustle up to Solo, you know they have a history; you understand that there's a dude named Jabba the Hutt who's after him, and Greedo is going to try to shoot him and get the money. You get what's going on there.

Christopher McCulloch

HistoryMoneyYouHustleKnowTry

It's so much better to desire than to have.

Anouk Aimee

BetterDesireThanMuch

Well, I get excited about music.

Anthony Kiedis

MusicExcitedWellGetAbout

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