Erica Jong Quotes
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
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And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.
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The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
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Once I got started acting I loved it.
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I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
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'Lord Arthur, may I present Lady Wednesday's Dawn?' Arthur bowed. He had already half-guessed the identity of their surprise guest. She had the hauteur that all the chief servants of the Trustees possessed. A kind of look that said, I am superior and you had better admit it.
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There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. Be he never so benighted and forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual Despair.
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Everything on Saturday morning cartoons moves alike-that's one of the reasons it's not animation. The drawings are different, but everybody acts the same way, their feet move the same way, and everybody runs the same way. It doesn't matter whether it's an alligator or a man or a baby or anything, they all move the same.
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The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.
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Naming something, putting it on record, in a lyric, feels like affirming people. Ideally, that's what politicians should want to do: to put laws or policies in place that speak to people's experiences, to make them feel heard.
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All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.
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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
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I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.
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Libera fortunae mors est; capit omnia tellusquae genuit; caelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.
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Chances are you're using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It's an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face.
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Both my New Hampshire great-grandfathers wore facial hair: the Copperhead who fought in the war and the sheep farmer too old for combat.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
