Marge Piercy Quotes
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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From my experience of shooting 'Tudors' on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather.
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Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too— Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
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I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.
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I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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Sometimes my body wakes me up and says 'Hey, you haven't had pain in a while. How about pain?' And sometimes I can't breathe, and that's hard to live with. But I still celebrate life and don't give up.
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Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.
