Marge Piercy Quotes
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Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
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My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.
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I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
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Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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In England, success in the profession of the law leads to some very great objects of ambition; and yet how few men, born to easy fortunes, have ever in this country been emminent in that profession?
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Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.
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If power means having control over one's own life, then perhaps there is no better ranking of the impact of sex roles and racism on power over our own lives than life expectancy.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.
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The body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie.
