Marge Piercy Quotes
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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I was tested against the best.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.
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The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
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Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'
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Chicago is the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.
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Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
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A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.
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Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
