Marilyn Hacker Quotes

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.

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• The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• I like walking in Golden Gate Park.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Walking
  • Golden
  • Gate

• So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Long
  • Women
  • Past

• Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Food
  • Healthy
  • Order

• I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Think
  • Know
  • Trump

• I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Beauty
  • Youth

• When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • God
  • Why

• Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Sound
  • Accent
  • Classes

• We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • High
  • Song
  • Location

• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • School
  • American
  • High

• I'm not a one-issue person.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Person

• I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Colors
  • Icon

• Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Good
  • Past
  • Relationship

• I've always been happy with my body.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Body

• A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Great
  • May
  • Value

• I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • Music
  • Public
  • Festivals

• My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Family
  • School
  • High

• What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Time
  • War
  • Political

• What I have to do to make sure I don't lose some games in a row; I don't know.

  

  Pep Guardiola

• Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

  

  David Fincher
  • Simple

• What you see is what you see.

  

  Frank Stella

• As long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • People
  • Long
  • Fighting

• Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.

  

  Marilyn Hacker
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