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 used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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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 think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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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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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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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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I'm a real romantic.
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Turkey, like every country, has a right to defend its territory and its airspace.
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America's greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.
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We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.
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Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.
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I looked at the circus, and I looked at the carnival, at the fun fair. But I looked at sleeping accommodations and decided I was too middle class to put up with that! So then I joined the theater and found I could choose my own bedroom. I loved the atmosphere. I loved that we worked till midnight and didn't start till ten.
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In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass.
