Marge Piercy Quotes
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.
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When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.
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My record speaks for itself.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.
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The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.
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In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.
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I'm very much against the notion of the Great Man, the Great Figure who is telling us all how to behave. Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.
