Marilyn Hacker Quotes
We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I would love to do some theater.
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To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I couldn't believe it! I mean, I'd always dreamed of acting on the screen - my previous background was all theater - but I wasn't sure if the opportunity would ever present itself. Not only was this acting for the screen, this was acting in 'The Hunger Games!' I knew that I had to give this audition my all.
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I tried to distinguish myself from the Rush Limbaughs of the world, but I also understood that there were folks on the Left who did not want to make that distinction: who thought that we all sounded alike, and we all were in lockstep.
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On this International Day for the Abolition of Slavery let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and children. And let us redouble our efforts to build societies in which slavery truly is a term for the history books.
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I think my strengths are definitely - I'm a really good glider. I'm one of the fastest, like on a straight drag race, I can pretty much kill that.
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I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.
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We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.
