"The first time I went over to [my director's] house, he said to me, This is a very strange play. I was pleased that he reminded me of that. [He] understands the play [VENUS] intellectually and emotionally and the humor, the funny bone."

-- Suzan-Lori Parks

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“The first five years of my career, I was Inmate #1, Bad Guy #1 and Mean Guy #1. I had a great career going, until somebody told me that I was typecast. I said, "Well, what's typecast?" And they said, "Well, you're always playing the mean Chicano dude with tattoos." I thought about that and I said, "Wait a minute! I am the mean Chicano dude with tattoos, so somebody is getting it right."”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.”

Source : "Rupert Sheldrake: the 'heretic' at odds with scientific dogma". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2012.
“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”
“This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference permits brutality and genocide.”
“A womanâ€™s moral influence is nowhere more powerfully felt or more beneficially employed than in the home. There is no better setting for rearing the rising generation than the traditional family, where a father and a mother work in harmony to provide for, teach, and nurture their children. Where this ideal does not exist, people strive to duplicate its benefits as best they can in their particular circumstances.”
“The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.”
“The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so long for it to be finished. It takes a long time to begin. And then it sort of gets finished.”
“My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'”

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