Erica Jong Quotes
Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.
Quotes to Explore
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.
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What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself.
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Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
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Even the relatively small amount of trans fats are likely to be causing around 7,000 premature deaths from heart disease per year.
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People can be successful for a short period of time, but only a handful of people are successful for decades.
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Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.
