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Marilyn Hacker Quotes

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.

Marilyn Hacker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: November 27, 1942

Topics

Challenge Find First English Poem

I left 'L.A. Law' after five years when my contract was up because I felt I had done all I could do with the character. I didn't walk off the show with a three-picture deal to pursue this wonderful film career.

Jimmy Smits

Character Walk Law Career Done Up

Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.

John Zimmerman

Beauty Wine Worse Than Beholder

It never really occurs to me that I'm doing cringe comedy. It's something that people tell me afterwards, and I say, 'Again? Really? I never set out with that intention.'

Stephen Merchant

People Me Comedy Doing Intention

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

Lou Brock

Goals Competition Me Think Playing

I want to make sure that I can stand behind every word I'm saying, because whoever I am in six months is going to have to be accountable.

Liv Bruce

I Am Saying Stand I Can Want Going

If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a friend, as a member of the family, a nuisance to yourself.

Dilip Kumar

Family Friend Yourself Better You

During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.

Donatella Versace

People Elegant Nineties Eighties

Your net worth can fluctuate, but your self-worth should only appreciate.

Chris Gardner

Appreciate Worth Self-Worth Your Net

I don't consider myself any denomination.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

Myself Consider Any Denomination

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

Astro Teller

Philosophy Authenticity Vulnerability

Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Relationship Gun You Hard Director

I remember very vividly a little plaid dress on which my father sewed all these hanging beads, little horses and stuff. It was my favourite thing ever. I had it when I was four, and I kept it until I was 12, when I gave it to the little neighbour girl. For years, I regretted giving it to her, even though I had no use for it.

Sheila Heti

Father Girl Dress Giving Remember