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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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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Men for whom divorce means walking out of their children’s lives except when they choose to see the children are the male equivalent of the adolescent feminists: men who want options without obligations. Morally, they have no right to walk out. A law that allows that is similarly immoral. 'Primary Parent' laws are just such laws.
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A certain scenario kept repeating itself. The people from the magazines would take two or three shots of the band. They’d start to pack up. And then they’d sort of take me off into a corner by myself. After about the thirtieth time that a photographer asked me to take my shirt off, I started to get the picture.
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We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.
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Playing live was always definitely a lot more fun. You picture it: working alone in the studio eight or 10 hours a day with nobody else there, being frustrated and driven crazy by all of the things that you have to deal with, vs. thousands of people screaming and singing along with you playing.
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Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.
