Erica Jong Quotes
Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.
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Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American sovereignty and independence to global institutions like the World Trade Organization.
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I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.
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I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
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So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.
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What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.
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I've always been a dreamer.
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I'm representing the single women out there, dating around, trying to find the right guy who respects you and appreciates you. Maybe I'll settle down somewhere. Gotta keep looking.
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I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.
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Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.
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You can forgive yourself a great deal.
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I only really work when I want to.
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I see a steady downward slope toward oblivion over the next three years. I'm pessimistic. Everything that's happened to me so far has been kind of flukey. I went into Twentieth Century because I wanted to work for Hal Prince. The part was too small according to my agent. I had been doing only leading parts, and he thought I should continue that. But the part was enlarged in rehearsal: songs were added, and it became more physicalized and showy. Then I won awards and got attention.
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I love shoes. I am a shoe fanatic. I have a special closet in my home just for my shoes.
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I just think that the Europeans are depriving themselves of a high-employment economy, and they are depriving themselves of intellectual stimulation in the workplace - and personal growth - by sticking to the stultifying, rigid system that I call corporatism.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
