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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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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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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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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In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.
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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
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I had absolutely no idea how I had ballooned during my pregnancy. All I thought about was eating plenty of food to keep my baby healthy.
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When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
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Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone.
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I'm writing and putting together my next few things. Even during the Red Army process, I've been writing and developing things, so that now that I'm done and with efforts supporting it throughout this process, I'm armed and ready to go with some things that I'm really passionate about.
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Those who don’t have a dream, it’s okay, it’s okay if you don’t have a dream. You just have to be happy.
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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.
