Marge Piercy Quotes
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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I'm a very strange painter. I don't wake up one day and say, 'God, isn't this a fantastic day, I'd better get out and paint!' I think my father's more that way, because he's very fast.
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I managed to get onto 'The Hobbit,' which is a story in itself. I missed the main round of auditions but managed to get a foot in the door at the last second - just as I came down with dysentery.
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Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.
