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 always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.
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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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The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
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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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Nothing of value is free. It is very easy, Mr. Chairman, to convince people that it is in their best interest to give away somebody else's property for nothing, but even the most guileless among us know that this is a cave of illusion where commonsense is lured and then quietly strangled.
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When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.
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Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.
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Honestly, orthodoxy concerns me about as much as it concerns your average jackrabbit. I only follow rules that take me where I want to go. If there aren't any rules, I make up my own and follow them strictly.
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There are still countries where women don't enjoy basic rights like the vote or the freedom to study or the freedom of choice in marriage. Every year there are twenty million little girls in Africa who are deprived of their sexuality through brutal genital operations. Basically, there's still much to be done.
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I learned that as much as you think when you're walking down that aisle that this forever, sometimes it's just not forever. You can have the best of intentions.
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There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.
