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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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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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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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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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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If I don't measure up as an American writer, at least leave me to my delusion.
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If you don't want to investigate what you're passing judgment on, then it's your fault. And I believe that if people investigate Goldberg as a human being, I'm not such a bad guy.
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I had left school at 16, gone to stage school - and, until I was 22, I hadn't really played anyone but myself. Then in 1979, I made a film with Mike Leigh called 'Grownups,' which went out on the BBC, and overnight this new career opened up.
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There is definitely something that has to be said for me liking the action, Lara Croft type stuff. I really want to explore that side of me.
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I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't even do my A-levels.
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I'm driving my dad's old ute. So it's a manual ute. It's massive, so when people see me coming, they just kind of run away!
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The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.
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Supporting American technology companies is one of the most patriotic things you can do - the technology industry is the reason our country has such a high-standard of living and why we can afford to spread the democracy virus around the globe.
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The emerging church, reformed according to the needs of self-esteem-starved-souls under the Lordship of Christ.... will help us to affirm the concept that 'While god's ideas may seem humanly impossible, he will give us these ideas which will lead to glorious, self-esteem-generating success.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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I'm this high school dropout. I quit in my sophomore year, when I was 15. I worked for a while in a deli, and when I was almost 17, I got married.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
