Marilyn Hacker Quotes
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You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
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A lot of people have it tougher than I do.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
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Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.
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I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.
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I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
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With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.
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To be honest, after you've crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control - you might get some food if you're lucky. You might see family if you're lucky.
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President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how.
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Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.
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But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.
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Impetus is a power of the mover applied in a movable thing which causes the movable thing to move after it is separated from its mover.
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救救孩子……
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If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day.
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The Internet is far more engaging as an interactive medium than broadcast. Barriers to creating content are going away; they're almost gone. People are taking control of their entertainment. People are Tweeting, posting on Facebook and YouTube.
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I finished a big book the other day. 421 pages. That's a lot of coloring when you think about it.
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I've never been on a show that's run for more than a season.
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Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.
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Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.
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There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.
