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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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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Through my work with CBBC, I have been seriously committed to encouraging young people to get outdoors and to engage with wildlife not just around the country but also right on their doorstep.
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What I've taken from my spiritual study is the wisdom of living a balanced life. My spiritual path has also helped me to be more emotionally centered, to be more understanding of those that disagree with me, and to learn how to let go of some of my power issues so that I can be more effective and bring a sense of humility to my work - while still having the self-confidence to be effective.
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Being a skeptical and thoughtful consumer of polls is essential.
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Learning how to shine a pair of shoes to me was like if you could do, you were like you were on your way to having abilities and skills as to be able to spit-shine a pair of shoes like they're patent leather. You're a bad dude. To spit-shine a pair of shoes. So, even to that small detail, that aided me and assisted me in becoming the artist that I am. My uncles' sense of style, their type of ties they used. The way they wore their suits, big and huge and baggy. The way they did their haircuts with the side burns. All of that.
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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.
