Marilyn Hacker Quotes
The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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I've always been happy with my body.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
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The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
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Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.
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The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.
