Erica Jong Quotes
The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.
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Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
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And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
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I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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We try to put on the same show regardless of what stage or platform we're on.
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The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved.
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The first album didn't become successful until the second was practically written.
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But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.
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The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.
