Erica Jong Quotes
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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You have to follow that next step.
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I really believe in the idea of the future.
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My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.
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When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.
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For me, dance is about the aesthetics and the hard work that goes into creating something so beautiful. Motivation and dedication to the craft is what pushes me to do my best, to always strive to do better, and the outcome is always worth it.
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Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.
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Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.
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That experience with 'Rent' went by so fast. I was younger. I didn't even really know what opening night was. And now I'm thinking back on the times I went to Broadway as a kid and the excitement I felt... And I'm realizing that I'm actually a part of that, so I'm learning to take it in, 'cause so often I shrug it away.
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I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.
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Your movie becomes much more narrow-minded when you have like-minded department heads. Whereas if you can surround yourself with people who have been a mother before, been a grandmother before, you get a much broader and wide-reaching swath of human emotions.
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When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.
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When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club – we hooped together in Chicago – he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
