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.

Marilyn Hacker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with. But we will have progress despite the deficits.

Jennifer Granholm

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I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time. I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend... I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York, and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.

John Waters

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We were empty nesters, our last-born child having departed for Duke. Meredith decided we needed a dog to fill the vacuum. She heard about a litter in Colorado sired by Chopper, the legendary avalanche dog at the top of Aspen Mountain.

Tom Brokaw

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In Total Nonstop Action, individual wrestlers have a lot more freedom to artistically express themselves versus WWE.

Rob Van Dam

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My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.

Rod Stewart

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I'm a big believer in regularity. My father taught me that. Get up early, get your work done, and that's, what, your highest level of energy before lunch.

Mike McCarthy

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Sadly, my German is almost non-existent, although I did a little at school.

Miranda Otto

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If I saw someone in need and I did nothing, I'd be defacing my own humanity.

Luis Gutierrez

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As natural as it is for a parent to talk about their child, it is for me to talk about my product.

Joy Mangano

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I was really impressed with and excited about being immersed in this world and this time period with 'Fences,' being able to walk the neighborhood, and it looks exactly like the 1950s.

Jovan Adepo

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I just always feel that any black art should address our perpetual struggle for progress and freedom, period. There's no way around it. The thing is you can never predict what the next injustice is going to be. Unfortunately, it's part of being black and conscious in America.

Cheo Hodari Coker

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To some extent, I've always felt that the music should be the thing that creates the emotion in you, rather than a video.

Christine McVie

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