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 want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
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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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With publicity comes humiliation.
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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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I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.
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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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We're going to be human, and we are going to make mistakes, but you really should understand the power that you have and embrace it in a positive way.
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Sarah Vaughan is one of my greatest heroes. She personifies what an artist is all about, taking risks, daring to go beyond the boundaries of safety and convention. It takes courage to share your vulnerability.
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I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.
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Only the film industry can make you an overnight success. Unlike other jobs where you have to work your way up, here you can reach dizzying heights of fame instantly.
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...the Democrats know that no matter how many GATTs, NAFTAs, empty OSHAs, and other betrayals...they heap on those labor leaders, they can be had because, once again, the Republicans are deemed worse.
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When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.
