Erica Jong Quotes

Keeping a journal implies hope.

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• There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Work
  • Book
  • Fear

• I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Road

• I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Me
  • Action
  • Movies

• I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Live
  • Die
  • More

• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Job
  • Food
  • Cool

• But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Career
  • Like
  • Never

• Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Time
  • Years
  • Period

• World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • World
  • Children
  • Community

• My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Life
  • Time
  • Money

• The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Die
  • End
  • Civilization

• Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • World
  • Hand
  • Hell

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Give

• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Light
  • Purpose
  • Darkness

• When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Responsibility
  • Actions
  • Cnn

• Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Business
  • Change
  • Strength

• I like to get real pretty.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Like

• Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Country
  • Done
  • Journalism

• If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

  

  Joseph Addison
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Dream

• Too many Americans live by Republican principles of faith, family, hope and opportunity, but vote for Democrats out of sheer habit.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Live
  • Family
  • Hope

• All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Hope
  • Flood
  • Cup

• Relief brought an aching desire to be sitting in a kedai with a large bottle of Tiger or Anchor or Carlsberg in front of him....

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Desire
  • Tiger
  • Anchor

• Keeping a journal implies hope.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Hope
  • Journal