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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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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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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For individuals to become fully active in the Church, they generally must experience a spiritual conversion and a social integration.
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With every interview you feel like you lose a piece of yourself, and with every bad review you become just that little bit more bitter. It is horrible in a way.
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Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.
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I believe that trade is essential for economic growth and development around the world, but I also believe that trade is imperfect.
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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.
