Marilyn Hacker Quotes
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On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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I received a call from Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum and head coach Eric Mangini. They asked me if I was ready to become a New York Jet. I quickly answered 'yes' and began to hug everyone at the table.
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Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
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Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
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You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.
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Some of the authorities would like to remove rhythmic gymnastics from the list of Olympic sports and turn it into art. I think this would be wrong, as rhythmic gymnastics is a true sport - we train around six hours per day and sometimes spend entire days in the gym.
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Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an.
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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
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Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.
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People don't care about what someone says about you in a movie - or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people's life better, then that's something that's really good.
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In a moment of stress, funding may go to systemically-important firms, which could pull funding away from firms not making the cut.
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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.
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I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.
