Erica Jong Quotes
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
Quotes to Explore
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.
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It's strange that so many people think it's glamorous and fun to be on a set, I guess it shows they do a good job of hiding reality!
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The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action.
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'Night They Missed the Horror Show' is my signature story. It changed my life, so it remains my favorite.
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It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have.
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You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
