Marge Piercy Quotes
I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.
Quotes to Explore
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come.
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
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Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.
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I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.
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The American people have pulled together in an amazing show of unity to help the Gulf Coast region, and I am proud of our citizens, ... Now, it is time for the U.S. House of Representatives to do the same.
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I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
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I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.
