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.Erica Jong
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
T. E. Lawrence -
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
Ira Glass -
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.
Xavier Dolan -
Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
Fran Drescher -
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.
Lake Bell -
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?
Wayne Huizenga
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
Xavier Rudd -
It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
Caitlyn Jenner -
There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
Carl Barks -
In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament... Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box.
Carles Puigdemont -
I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
Halldor Laxness -
My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.
Walter Kirn
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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.
Wendell Pierce -
It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.
Flo Rida -
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I am resigned to the fact that people who don't know me loathe me. Perhaps it is because I am a woman writing poetry. It must be annoying to a man who wants to write to see this horrid old lady who can.
Edith Sitwell -
I made my living in comedy, but I'm not a silly person. I've got all these sides to me. Even in my movies that I've written myself, the characters sometimes border on great anger or nutsiness or other kinds of behavior. I'm not just doing fart jokes for two hours.
Albert Brooks -
I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.
Alexander Wang
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When people write things on the Internet about me that aren't true, it's tough to deal with. Even if you're the most mellow person in the world, stuff like that bothers you eventually.
Phillip Phillips -
I'm a terrible sleeper because I work all the time. I stay up late almost every night working, whether it's on a TV or live show. I come up with new ideas, do research, watch loads of TED talks, or find psychology articles.
Keith Barry -
I was never in an improv group. But when I went to school, we would do it all day long with friends, not knowing what it was called.
Christopher Guest -
I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now.
Douglas Tompkins -
I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.
Liz Phair -
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.
Erica Jong