Marge Piercy Quotes
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.
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I hate the domestic life.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.
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Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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I think it's very important for someone going to buy a book, taking a class or listening to a lecturer to ask, "Is this the right thing for me to do now? If it isn't, guide me to what I need."
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I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.
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Even when I was a little punk kid, I would fight anybody - it didn't matter. That's who I've been my whole life.
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My ability to bring different characters to life is what has helped me advance in my career, and I would say as far as looks are concerned, well, I suppose that would be the icing on the cake, but acting comes first and foremost.
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Respect is such a simple and easy thing to have and to give, and it doesn't cost anything.
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Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
