Marilyn Hacker Quotes
'Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons' is a kind of novel in verse about the arc of an urban lesbian love affair - and I suppose there is a certain amount of voyeurism in the consumption of fiction! The 'Sancerre' poems here are more contemplative and about the relationship of the individual to local and wider histories.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.
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I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.
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Why was I born with such contemporaries?
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The mentality of how we treat one another needs to be examined - especially how we treat our men of color.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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I am comfortable performing now. I love it!
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I've had ups and downs with my skin, but after some time, I've learned what works best and what products I need to stay away from.
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For me, it's not like I am going to look at the money the director's film has made before their film... For me, it is about working with the director whose work I have admired.
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Salespeople are the most vital people in any business. Without sales, the biggest and most sophisticated companies shut down. Sales are the spark plug in the engine of free enterprise. There is a direct relationship between the success of the sales community and the success of the entire country.
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'Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons' is a kind of novel in verse about the arc of an urban lesbian love affair - and I suppose there is a certain amount of voyeurism in the consumption of fiction! The 'Sancerre' poems here are more contemplative and about the relationship of the individual to local and wider histories.
