Erica Jong Quotes

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.

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• Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • God
  • Said
  • Thank God

• The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Eyes
  • Stage
  • Old

• I do sometimes wonder if people think, 'Oh we'll have her because she cries well.' The odd thing is I don't really know where it comes from. If the script is good, I find I can usually cry without too much trouble - in fact, the hard thing is trying to get me to stop. But I'm not really a crier in real life. I'm not a dramatic person, you see.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Feeling
  • Humor
  • Perception

• At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Time
  • History
  • Leadership

• It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Country
  • Money
  • Want

• Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Down
  • Trees
  • Graceful

• When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Learn
  • Show
  • Two

• I did kindergarten twice because I was so shy.

  

  Zendaya
  • Because
  • Shy
  • Twice

• I just try to direct in a way that interests me. And, hopefully, other people will find it compelling.

  

  Lonny Price
  • People

• We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.

  

  Daniel Suarez
  • Book
  • Nature

• When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Person

• I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

  

  Little Richard
  • Rock
  • Player
  • Guitar

• I will just think, why am I singing? Then I will know everything I need to know about what I'm feeling.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Why
  • Feeling
  • Singing

• You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Kill

• I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Students
  • Piano
  • Mediocre

• You are not just, "This is the way I play it every night." You are constantly finding new ways in, new attacks, "I want to try it this way. Maybe this scene is affecting that scene. I want to attack this scene differently."

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Night

• There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Great
  • Live
  • Band

• This record was supposed to come out in July already, but it just got delayed and delayed, so, well, I guess it was just coincidence.

  

  Kerry King Slayer
  • Record
  • Supposed
  • Coincidence

• The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Attention
  • inspirational
  • Should

• The whole of life is as music and in order to study life we must study it as music. It is not only study, it is also practice which makes man perfect. If someone tells me that a certain person is miserable or wretched or distressed, my answer will be that he is out of tune.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Life
  • Music

• Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof. Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth, and pursue it steadily. Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Quality

• Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.

  

  Erica Jong
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