Marge Piercy Quotes
Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.
Quotes to Explore
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
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I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
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To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.
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Sleep. Sleep. Sleep. Me? You can't ask me that question. I sleep.
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It's important to underscore this overriding fact: women are not just victims of conflict-they are agents of peace and agents of change.
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It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
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A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.
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Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.
