Erica Jong Quotes
Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
Erica Jong
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
Ian Mckellen
I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
Abbi Jacobson
I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.
Watkin Tudor Jones
People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
Yoko Ono
Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
Galina Vishnevskaya
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
Damon Galgut
If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'
Samantha Barks
I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.
Val McDermid
There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.
Gary Neville
I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
Bear Grylls
No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.
Gary Wright
I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
Vera Farmiga
I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.
Samantha Shannon
I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.
Kate Bush
I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.
Rachel Maddow
There are no easy solutions for Israel's own governance problems.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
Walter O'Brien
My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
Dan Jenkins
