Erica Jong Quotes
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.
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When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.
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I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and I do plug both at signings. Generally, the fantasy reader has no problem going into the suspense genre. It's harder for the typical suspense reader to go the other direction.
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If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.
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The rise of women and feminism is well documented. What is equally fascinating - and less talked about - is the impact this has had on men.
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I like Akon, I like some of Lil Wayne when he uses that funky voice. Anything progressive.
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I think, what I would communicate to people, if you are really keen in helping the world, you could spend so much quality time in terms of coaching, learning, providing great energy to the social entrepreneurs.
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David Cameron was a good-looking chap in his day!
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I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.
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People are fed up with Labour for taking them for granted for far too long, they are fed up of too much spin, and the people of Dunfermline and West Fife have spoken for the rest of the country with their views on the Labour government.
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Everybody thinks you can get by by being Mr. Nice Guy, but that's not what winning programs do. Winning programs have a plan.
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The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
