Marge Piercy Quotes
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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.
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I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
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If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
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Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.
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Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
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I've never felt like I've exactly traded on my looks. When I was a teenager, I was an ultra late bloomer, and my mom would say it was a blessing because it means you never have to wonder if guys are only interested in you because you've got boobs.
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Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.
