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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And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.
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Sometimes films might not work, but you as an actor should keep working. Because no matter how much you panic about how your film didn't work, eventually, when you step out in the real world, there are people who value you as an artist.
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I have to be below 140 to really look good. I have to work my legs like crazy. Actually, do you want my real goal? My real goal's always too low. I love the way I look at, like, 128.
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When I got pregnant, I knew I wasn't anywhere in my career, that I had not arrived. I was still on my adventure, and so I said to the child in my belly, 'I am so happy for you to come, but you should know I'm still on my way, and you'll have to come with me and be in my rucksack.'
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January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take the next step toward a free and democratic society as they place their votes for a transitional Iraqi government.
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Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
