Marge Piercy Quotes
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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God chose Memphis as the place that I will continue my career.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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I have had a Twitter account since the very beginning but have never used it: I haven't tweeted anything, and I haven't followed anyone.
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The work of the world is common as mud.
