Marilyn Hacker Quotes
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
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I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who.
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We, the Indians, as Guru of the Nations: yes, I believe in that. We can be-or once more become- the hope of mankind. But that requires efforts and courage to be ourselves culturally. Unfortunately, we live in an age of political dwarfs, political managers without vision or courage. But their time is running out.
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As a young actor, it's important to see how the greatest in the industry work... diva behavior is never it.
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I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
