Erica Jong Quotes
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I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.
Pat Paulsen -
Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
Pat Burns -
Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
Harmony Korine -
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.
Laura Marano -
It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.
Magnus Magnusson
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I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.
B. B. King -
If the light is right, you can squint at the Taj and see the specter of its black twin on the other side of the Yamuna - and it is then that you truly marvel not just at the Taj, but at the wonder of what might have been.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.
Van Jones -
We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
A. E. Housman -
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
Cyril Connolly -
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
John Adams
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The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.
Clayton Christensen -
You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn't do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people.
Prince Andrew -
I love technology. I love trying to tell stories in new ways using technology.
Chris Milk -
Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.
Leroy Hood -
I am behind Kanye West for American President 100 per cent.
Katherine Ryan -
When it comes to beach volleyball, we're playing in 100-degree-plus weather.
Kerri Walsh Jennings
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Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.
Francis Marion Crawford -
I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
Yolanda Adams -
Political progress will only take place if sufficient security exists.
David Petraeus -
Barack Obama winning the election had an instant impact on everything - race relations, national self-esteem, tolerance. It also had an instant affect on 'Frost/Nixon.' At a stroke, instead of being a piece that reminded people of the agony they were in, it became an uplifting message about the agony they had escaped.
Peter Morgan -
The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.
Erica Jong