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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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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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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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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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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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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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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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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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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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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I've always been happy with my body.
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When I was teenager, Britney Spears was it - that was the pop world that was happening, and I knew I wasn't in it.
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When our purpose is external, we may never find it. If we tie our purpose or meaning to our vocation, goal or an activity, we're more than likely setting ourselves up for suffering down the line.
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I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
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People often refer to a creative ability as a 'gift', and, of course, it is, in that, if I had sat down and logically tried to work out who I was and what I should do, I would never have come up with the idea of writing. It was already there, gratis, a given - a gift.
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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.
