Erica Jong Quotes
If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
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Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.
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I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
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I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
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What's really important to me is somebody who can totally let loose and pretty much be themselves and have fun.
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
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When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.
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You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that's listening, but they're in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you.
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It's impossible to be someone you're not, so quit trying. I am as passionate about my hobbies as I am about my work and my family. All three are equally important to me at all times.
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I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window overlooking the veranda and putting green, listening to the idle chitchat of competitors, authors, wits and philosophers, hasn't exactly been a torturous way to begin each day at the Masters all these years.
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A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.
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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
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I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.
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The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.
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The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job.
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Kids are much more intuitive these days. Not that I'm crazy about what's on TV, but they know so much these days.
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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
