"I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means."

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Suzan-Lori Parks

#Mean Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Do you laugh in the right places? Then, youâ€™ll get along, in fair weather or foul. Humor is nothing less than a sense of the fitness of things. Something thatâ€™s out of proportion, like an inflated ego, should strike you funny, particularly if itâ€™s your own inflated ego. Otherwise you are pathetic and quite hopeless.”
“Real, sane, mature loveâ€”the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after schoolâ€”is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.”
“I don't want to retire. I still want to play.”
“Now the dressing-room full of RSC hierarchy. Suddenly Trevor Nunn pushes his way through and 'Trevs' me. I've heard a lot about this 'Trevving', but never had it done to me. From what I'd heard, a 'Trev' is an arm round your shoulder and a sideways squeeze. But this 'Trev' is a full frontal hug, so complete and so intimate that the dressing-room instantly clears, as if by suction. I'm left alone in the arms of this famous man wondering whether it's polite to let go.”
“But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other, two by two, as in combinatorial analysis, that is to say, everyone with all the others, and especially every man with all the women, old maids or married, and every woman with all the men. All I had to do was to select two names at random, better if different sex, and ask a third person, "What happened with those two?" and lo and behold, a splendid story was unfolded for me, since everyone knew the story of everyone else.”
“Chess is a beautiful mistress.”
“Play with your kids. Limit their TV time. Get outdoors and chase them around. Wrestle with them. Walk the dog. Go bike riding. The reality is that your kids are not stupid, and they know when they are overweight Start walking the dog after dinner instead of watching TV. You don't want them going on the Web to find ways to lose weight. That's when you'll find them eating tissue paper because they read that a supermodel did it.”
“It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.”

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