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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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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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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Ultimately, the goal of sanctions is to ratchet up the economic pressure on the Iranians to such a level that the regime determines it is simply too great to bear, and they are forced to weigh the decision to carry on their nuclear development and their illicit quest for nuclear weapons against the ever-growing pressure from their own people.
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My parents separated when I was nine, but my father was always around, and he still follows me now. He is always sending me messages.
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America is a meritocracy.
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The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.
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I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.
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Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.
