Marge Simon Quotes
I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I've written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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If I didn't travel so much, maybe my perfect Sunday would be skin diving on a coral reef - not scuba diving, as skin diving is more physical, and I prefer the lightness of it. Skin diving means wearing just goggles. Oh, I could wear some trunks, maybe.
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ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
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My own style is pretty classic; I much prefer to design for others.
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I think badminton has a real legacy with more youngsters taking up the sport. Badminton has done really well in that regard compared to other sports.
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Stories are best when they 'emerge' from the depths, and when built in a painting from early sketch through the three-act process to The End, it is a perfect pathway to the unconscious stories set in our dreamwork.
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I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I've written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me.
