Erica Jong Quotes

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

Erica Jong

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• I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Focus
  • Poet
  • Uncomfortable

• Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Money
  • Lose
  • Never Forget

• The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Women
  • Money

• I love working with the Farrelly brothers. I'm a big fan and feel very lucky to have gotten to work with them a few times. One thing that I learned while working with them is that you have to keep your cell phone off when filming scenes, or you owe them a lot of money!

  

  Carly Craig
  • Work
  • Money
  • Feel

• Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Money
  • Trust
  • Your

• Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Money
  • Space

• If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Money
  • You
  • Count

• Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Money
  • Basic
  • Traits

• Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Life
  • Live
  • Money

• There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Money
  • Band
  • Best

• A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Poet
  • Survive
  • Can

• People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• If the money's right, I'll do a film.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Money
  • Film
  • Right

• When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Money
  • Movies
  • Try

• Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • Great
  • She
  • Writer

• I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Money
  • Movie

• A lot of magic happens when you put out a publicity release. I have launched many products with the money I got back from my publicity release.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Money
  • Magic
  • Release

• You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a women's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.

  

  O. Henry
  • Women
  • Money
  • Home

• When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.

  

  Chad Kroeger Nickelback
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Bad

• Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Money
  • Business
  • Opinion

• We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Children
  • I Believe
  • Experienced

• I mean, just like every other prominent songwriter or producer, you have the shot. You send in records and if they make it, they make it. If they get heard, they get heard. I'm not sure if you know how that circle of songwriting and producing works, but every time a big artist is working, everybody and their mother is in the studio writing records to try to get on it.

  

  Bryce Wilson
  • Producer
  • Shot
  • Songwriter

• I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Money
  • Writer
  • Poet