Marge Piercy Quotes
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
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Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling.
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I don't know if my looks will ever get any better, but my pratfalls sure won't.
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I'm going to make this T-Shirt up saying, 'you can either be right or be happy.'
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When a crime writer thinks up a delicious twist, it is a great moment. Time to relax and take the rest of the day off. I do think that it can be overdone, however.
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A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been.
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In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass.
