Marge Piercy Quotes
It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived there, it's important to take a fresh look in terms of your characters and your story.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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A melody is not merely something you can hum.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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I've seen 'Absentia,' which was amazing. I loved 'Absentia.' I loved that for no money, he was able to make a movie about something that you never saw. You never saw the bad guys. That was amazing to me. You never saw what you were supposed to be afraid of; you just knew you were supposed to be afraid of it. It was a phenomenal movie.
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Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.
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Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it
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This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.
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It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived there, it's important to take a fresh look in terms of your characters and your story.
