Marilyn Hacker Quotes
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
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Practice puts brains in your muscles.
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
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Our lives teach us who we are.
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I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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Most ballets are more interesting than most men.
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The challenge starts when you first come to Mumbai. But it's momentary if you win an award.
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He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.
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If the characters on 'The West Wing' were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump was leading in the polls, they wouldn't find it believable.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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When I was small I didn't really know what i was doing. I just sang and it came out sounding pretty good. I just do it and it happens.
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Poetry is a purging of the world's poverty and change and evil and death. It is a present perfecting, a satisfaction in the irremediable poverty of life.
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Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.
