Erica Jong Quotes
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.
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Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space - relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape.
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Time is valuable; people are busy.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
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Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
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In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.
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I've heard people have written books of me. People don't even know me, but they've written a book on me. You ever heard of hearing it from the horse's mouth? I'm the horse.
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. They want to see the way business is done in Washington change.
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I don't know if I will be acting all my life, honestly.
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Everything speeds up and it's blurry for a minute. But you've got to have a little patience sometimes to just find a soft spot. There's always a soft spot in the defense, and it's your job to find it.
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I'm still kind of nerdy about video games, but I've had to take a little bit of a step back. I was really not getting a lot of things done in life because I was playing so much Destiny. I loved it, but I've gotta prioritize.
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It's always difficult to work out on location, away from home, but that's the actor's life. You go where the work is.
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Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
