Erica Jong Quotes
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I want to get into movies, not just TV series.
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In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.
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There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
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These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.
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My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.
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Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
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'24' had to withstand accusations of being right-wing, but 'Homeland' is a far more liberal show.
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Educated women armed with computers have defeated extremists by denying them a monopoly to define cultural identity and interpret religious texts. No extremist can say that women are inferior to men without being made a laughingstock on Al Jazeera. Islam insisted on equality between everyone.
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I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.
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It's hard to describe yourself as a hero - I just like to think of myself as a policeman. People can look to you like that, as a good guy who can help people.
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As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.
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A lack of direction and meaning can leave you empty.
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Everyone thinks with 'Smash,' because it looks glossy and big, they think they're spending a fortune, and they think it's taking weeks to shoot.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
