Marilyn Hacker Quotes
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I have to trust what I do and then do it.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
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George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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I will forever be proud to call myself a Bruin and will never forget the memories that were made here.
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I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.
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You can only see what you believe-nothing else is possible.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
