Marilyn Hacker Quotes
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
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I don't do negative things.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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With 'Palo Alto' as the catalyst, I've surrounded myself with people that have kind of created a world where I can feel like I'm not gonna be judged for doing something that I want to do.
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'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
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I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.
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I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.
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Some people live life and others talk about it.
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In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained.
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I don't like to see anyone suffer, and there's a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out.
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I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.
