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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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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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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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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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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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.
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Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.
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Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
