Marge Piercy Quotes
The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
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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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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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I am very attracted to funny people - I'd go so far as to say I find it hard to trust unfunny people.
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I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.
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The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.
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There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
