Marge Piercy Quotes
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.
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Unconditional love is all you have. You can't overdose on love, you never can. It's a beautiful thing.
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Should you create a protagonist based directly on yourself? The problem with this - and it is a very large problem - is that almost no one can view himself objectively on the page. As the writer, you're too close to your own complicated makeup.
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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
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I will give 100 per cent and play with my life in every game. That's one of my main features as a player.
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History is a game played backwards only.
