Marge Piercy Quotes
When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone!
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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I try to stay away from the craft services table on set! That's probably why I am able to still get work in this business: I stay away from junk food.
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Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.
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Today, we have sophisticated building technology: we can calculate and simulate the environments and performance of the building, the thermal exposure of envelop, or the air flow through an urban space or structure.
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When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.
