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I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was jus

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years. – Marilyn Hacker

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As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down. – Marilyn Hacker

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When you translate poetry in particular, youre obliged to look at how the writer with whom youre working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. – Marilyn Hacker

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America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech. – Rick Perry

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When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using. – Kirstie Alley

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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. – Erma Bombeck

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The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge. – Carl Lewis

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