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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I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.
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I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or San Francisco. This may be obvious to some people, but I grew up in Delhi, and I had no experience of how someone from a 'Tier 2' city may view a 'Tier 1' city. You really do emigrate between worlds when you come from those towns.
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There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.
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When you're 65, you're surprised by what turns you on.
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The reality is that people know my character, and they know my service.
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Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside.
