Erica Jong Quotes

Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile.

Erica Jong

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• I think there's no greater healing power than music.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Music
  • Power
  • Healing

• We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Children
  • Death
  • Wife

• I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Couple
  • Places
  • Australia

• Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • People
  • Art
  • Politics

• As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.

  

  Patricia Norris
  • Character
  • Situation
  • Try

• Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • Character
  • American
  • Strong

• I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Science
  • Ideas
  • Playing

• I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.

  

  Kajol
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Justice

• In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

  

  Patrick White
  • School
  • Free
  • English

• A hard man is good to find.

  

  Mae West
  • Good
  • Man
  • Find

• I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

  

  Zach Braff
  • School
  • Learn
  • Movies

• Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Want
  • Me
  • Son

• All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Work
  • Information
  • Computers

• We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Hope
  • Player
  • Baseball

• For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Men
  • Important
  • Women

• Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Danger
  • Divorce
  • Independence

• We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • People
  • Like
  • Enthusiasm

• Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • World
  • American
  • Today

• If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.

  

  Paul Gascoigne
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Better Person

• I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I can find worlds bigger and deeper than my own in music, paintings, and books. And from my friends and family I receive the highest benediction, emotional contact, and personal affirmation. I can bow before the works of Man, from buildings to babies, and that fulfills my need for wonder. I can believe in the sanctity of Life, and that becomes the Revealed Word, to live my life as I believe it should be, not as I'm told to by self-appointed guides.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Beauty
  • Existence
  • Worship

• I'm sure our brains are working unconsciously. When you have a creative thought, it's parts of the brain talking to each other without your awareness.

  

  Paul Greengard
  • Brain
  • Creative
  • Awareness

• Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Writing
  • Silence
  • Laughter