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 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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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 that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.
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As the founder and former chief executive of two publicly traded companies, I have had a great deal of exposure to how debt markets work.
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Women in country music have always been a staple and always been important.
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You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.
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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.
