Marge Piercy Quotes
When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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I get cold - really cold - when I travel.
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I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.
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I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
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At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that.
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Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.
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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.
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I happen to enjoy grilled cheese and tomato sandwiches.
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I never really sang for anyone, apart from in the shower or with my best friend. I was shy. I didn't want to take voice lessons. I knew I could sing, but I just didn't tell anyone.
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We are supposed to believe that every dollar given to a Clinton is a dollar that improves the world. But is it? Clintonworld is a galaxy where personal enrichment and political advancement blend seamlessly, and where a cast of jarringly familiar characters pad their pockets every which way to Sunday.
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Honestly, some of the things that happen will absolutely shock people. It's very unlike what people think of Gilligan's Island...viewers will absolutely be entertained.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story, the story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I'm struggling with - my own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.
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Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I like short films, too; I love doing readings, audio books, working with young filmmakers; anything that keeps you from getting blase about yourself or in a rut.
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The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music.
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When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.
