Erica Jong Quotes
I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
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If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
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There's not a formula that I'm following; it's just how I feel at the time. For instance, I did a very experimental film called 'Hardcore Henry,' and that was simply because I thought the filmmaker was very interesting and a risk taker. A film like that had never been made before, so I chose to do that at the time.
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.
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I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.
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Even on health care what you've seen is a lot of stories surfacing lately about people who said, "Well, I voted for [Donald] Trump but I don't think he's really gonna take away my health care."
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
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I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.
