Marge Piercy Quotes
Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been as good friend, haven't been as good a person, made a lot of mistakes.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too.
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This is the essence of the problem. To Dan Rather and to a lot of other powerful members of the chattering class, that which is right of center is conservative. That which is left of center is middle of the road. No wonder they can't recognize their own bias.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.
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Your whole perspective changes on what's possible. You can make dreams happen.
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Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been as good friend, haven't been as good a person, made a lot of mistakes.
