Erica Jong Quotes

We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

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• I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Work
  • Game
  • Training

• I don't deal with the whole 'bad boy who doesn't call you.' That doesn't interest me at all, and I just look the other way.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Bad
  • Me
  • Boy

• Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Inspiration
  • Identity
  • Piece

• Every man is different. You can't generalize with men; you have to find out what your man wants. You have to listen to him when he's telling you what he wants, because a lot of times they're telling you, but you're not listening.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Men
  • Different
  • Man

• Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Children
  • Nature
  • Education

• Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • World
  • Management
  • WIld

• I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • War
  • Fall
  • End

• I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • College

• Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Done
  • Think
  • You

• Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Life
  • May
  • Desire

• To even be called the 'teen queen' is crazy.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Crazy
  • Teen
  • Queen

• Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Never
  • Vision
  • Look

• As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Comedy
  • Best
  • Awards

• After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • God
  • Family
  • Day

• It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Important
  • House
  • Space

• Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • War
  • Faith

• Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Turn

• I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Up
  • Wall
  • Back

• iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Up
  • Cool
  • Tired

• The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Money
  • You
  • Find

• Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • Nature
  • Competition

• The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • People
  • Spiritual
  • Negative

• I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Term
  • Privacy
  • Appreciative

• We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Spiritual
  • Human
  • Experiences