Erica Jong Quotes
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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My sister and I had jointly heard the narration of 'Revolver Rani' in Tigmanshu Dhulia's office. After hearing the narration, my sister was very scared and adamant that I should not do this film, as my character was twisted, neurotic, violent and abusive.
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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
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No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
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For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.
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Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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I hate birthdays.
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We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.
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The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.
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There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else's entertainment.
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The reason women don't vote for Republicans is not that they haven't had the impact of Republican policies spelled out in simple enough terms for them. It's because they understand Republican policies perfectly well. Women vote against Republicans because they know the impact Republican policies have on their lives.
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I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I went to a school for the gifted in Florida, and it was full of kids who - we were all strange together. And that was a real blessing.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
