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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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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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 was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.
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I'm in a position where, if you have the ability, you should use it well. To get things done.
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Once I have a book in my head, I write progressive drafts fast and obsessively and have trouble sleeping.
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I never had the slightest desire to be a major league manager, and all knew it. But Ban Johnson, Bob Hedges, and Jimmy McAleer persuaded me that the Browns were in a sort of a jam, and it was up to me, as an old standby, to do what I could.
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I grew up watching Dr. J, and I was like, 'Oh my God, this guy is the greatest basketball player I ever saw.'
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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.
