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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The first movie I literally ever made in my life was about two guys playing Stratego with each other. I had all my friends dressing up like the military characters in the game. So 'Battleship' is really my second board game turned movie!
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It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.
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Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form.
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We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.
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Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way.
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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.
