Erica Jong Quotes
I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
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In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament... Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box.
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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
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My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.
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I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.
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The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way.
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David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brilliant songwriter who captured the thoughts of a generation. He was hugely successful, without compromise.
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It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.
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I'm a bit of a rebel, and I always will be.
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Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.
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I don't mind having people over, but it's weird how much more withdrawn I've become than being social in public places, I guess.
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
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Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.
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I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.
