Marge Piercy Quotes
Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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Age for me is just a number.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
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My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
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Tim Story is a fantastic director, and I'm so excited to get to work with him.
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We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
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Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.
