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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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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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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It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.
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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can there be anything better than performing without retakes and cuts, in front of people you can see, hearing them breathe in the darkness of the hall?
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
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I'm sorry to say that far worse things have happened and the literature of the Holocaust is a witness to the capacity of the novel as a form.
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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.
