Marya Hornbacher Quotes
When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?'
Quotes to Explore
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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I like to discover new things.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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I take my work seriously.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
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I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
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I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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There is no must in art because art is free.
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Humility is the armour that you clothe yourself with throughout your life. We demean each other rather than lift up ourselves.
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There's no doubt in the world that I am the biggest 'Doctor Who' fan.
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When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?'
