Marge Piercy Quotes
One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one's ideas as semisacred, and to treat others in a certain way - professionally.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
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The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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If you are good at studies, and you want to play cricket, you may work harder than any other person, but you may not achieve it. So it's something you have to balance in life and be practical where you are good and then channelise your efforts in the right direction to be successful in life.
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How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
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Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.
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It's pretty awesome to be in a band with your wife! The tour, it beats you down, and we can just share that, and sometimes revel in the experience. If she wasn't here, or she was just here as a civilian, she maybe would feel uncomfortable.
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That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one's ideas as semisacred, and to treat others in a certain way - professionally.
