Marge Piercy Quotes
Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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On game days, I'm pretty boring: I like to rest and watch TV with my legs up so I'm not on my feet too much before the match.
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The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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I am against the death penalty.
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I have lived with extraordinary women, whether it was my grandmother, my mother. My father passed away when I was 16... I was witness to a woman who single handedly brought up the entire family and managed to do everything... She was an extraordinary role model for me.
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Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.
