Erica Jong Quotes
The unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.
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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
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I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
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That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
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What we wanted to do was tell a story that felt relatable to anyone who's been a teenager. We haven't all been a second-generation Pakistani-American girl with superpowers, but we've all been 16 and awkward.
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I have an obsession with hot sauce. I love Cholula. I put Cholula on everything.
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I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.
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A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
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Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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I hate television, but that's me. It's like sucking your thumb. It's a wonderful thing for keeping the masses enslaved.
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My mother's Puerto Rican and my father's Russian-Jewish, so we consider ourselves to be Jewricans or Puertojews. I think Puertojew sounds like a kosher bathroom, so I prefer Jewrican.
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It was gorgeous and claustrophobic. I loved it and I always wanted to escape.
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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I don't plan to restrict myself to rapping in the future, and I didn't want to come off as too aggressive, which is why I thought about changing my name.
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The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.
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The unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.
