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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Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
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We made a completely new kind of transistor (the NPN BJT, and in our development work, our researcher, Leo Esaki, demonstrated the electron tunneling effect, which led to the development of the tunnel diode for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize seventeen years later, after he had joined IBM.
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Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.
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All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
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I do not subscribe to the advocacy journalism school. It's not who I am and not who CNN wants me to be.
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Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
