Marilyn Hacker Quotes
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
Quotes to Explore
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
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You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
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We will see about Obama's legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy.
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Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.
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I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.
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It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.
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Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.
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Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?
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I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.
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If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"
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I can still take the hits; it's not a problem for me. I accept the blows. I can take the punches like a boxer.
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I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.
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Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.
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I have a beautiful Hellenistic gold and garnet ring - it's more than 2,200 years old, but it looks very modern.
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I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.
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Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.
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The financial crisis of 2008-09 was in large part the result of the so-called 'success' of people who did not understand their fiduciary duty. This kind of 'success' is extremely harmful to all of society.
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I thought that was fantastic. We were working on that the other night, actually.
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The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
