Erica Jong Quotes
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
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I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.
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Once you get to know me, you would know in a second that I am an East Coast girl. You can tell because I'm not flaky, and I will tell you how it is. I also walk faster than they walk in L.A.
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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I adore 'The Chipmunks.'
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American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.
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Number 40: Love is worth the risk.
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When it comes to work, there is a fear factor around meritocracy. People are afraid of being openly judged. However, when you know what you are being measured against, it's empowering.
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Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.
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I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
