Erica Jong Quotes
A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.
Erica Jong
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
Sam Childers
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
Kate Winslet
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
Isaac Barrow
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. Boyle
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I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.
Gary Carter
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
Sally Mann
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
Ted Cruz
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde
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When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence.
Damien Rice
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My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.
Madeleine Peyroux
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I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.
Harish Rawat
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
Taslima Nasrin
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In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene, but if something traumatic happens to you, usually at puberty, then that mutation manifests itself.
Gavin Hood
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When someone says to me, 'I love your book - I read it in a day,' I want to tell them to go back and read it again.
Jacqueline Woodson
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His [Andy warhol] films were way ahead of the times...and I'm not suggesting this has all necessarily been a good thing for America, mind you. I kind of think we're all in a really big mess, kind of like the end days of the Roman Empire.
Bob Colacello
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When I got the episode where Spider-Man meets Aunt May (voiced by Misty Lee), it was another one of those things where I was like, "I can't believe I have a scene with Aunt May. That's just amazing to me." And they drew her a lot younger and hotter then the Aunt May that I remember.
Clark Gregg
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A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.
Erica Jong
