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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Linda Georgian is a wonderful psychic. She can do amazing things.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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'Brotherhood of the Wolf' is a very important movie because it represents something new. The director Christophe Gans came up with the idea of taking a French legend and making it some kind of really strange, almost Chinese action movie. The result is something that I haven't seen anywhere before.
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One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole nations and empires - and the blind faith that such leaders can nevertheless inspire among the people who are enthralled by their words or their posturing.
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My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.
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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.
