Erica Jong Quotes
Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
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Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.
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Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia's tough voter ID law.
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The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.
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Textures apply to everything I do. Even within my music, I like smooth things, and then hard and fluffy things, all giving them their place to shine.
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Being a dad is like - there's nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, with parents and fathers and brothers, siblings, I just think that you're always in the terrain of love, whether it's absence of love or the giving of love or the desire for love.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.
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It is very important that our young people have constructive early work experiences. But it is equally important that their jobs are safe and complement their education, rather than complete it.
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It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
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Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
