Erica Jong Quotes
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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I don't commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I'm not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch!
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I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.
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In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!
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To me, discomfort is a gift in the films that I'm making.
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I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
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At home, I warm milk, stir in two teaspoons of honey, and drink it in a teacup. It's so basic yet pure; I love it.
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The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.
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They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
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of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
