Marge Piercy Quotes
Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Being evil is easy.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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My family is weird in a very good way because I was always exposed to the arts.
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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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The biggest compliment to me is that guys really approach me and they have a connection with me, so there must be something I'm doing that is authentic, otherwise they wouldn't connect with me so strongly. It's a real compliment.
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From what I see, people of color are being called on in a different way. We're being heard in a different way - louder. And I think it's such an exciting time. The power structure is being redefined, and we're redefining beauty with the stories that we're telling and the women we're showing on our covers.
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When I have the beard on I have people behind me in traffic honking their horn. I'm thinking "how in the world?" But it's the beard - it's kind of the stand out thing.
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The Olympics are an opportunity to redefine the country, but the message is always wrong.
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Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside.
