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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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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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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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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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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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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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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I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.
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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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Adult actors are really childish, and that's nice to be around when you're a kid. So the big reason I wanted to be an actor was I really enjoyed actors' company - which probably makes me about as shallow as a puddle. But it could be worse. I could be working for a living.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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I use a lot of the Web 2.0 apps that I've seen out there, and I think there is incredible work going on there.
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Forget about banks that are too big to fail; the focus should be on cities, municipalities and countries that are too big to fail.
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I love an iPad game of Scrabble.
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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
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Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
