Erica Jong Quotes
We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.Erica Jong
Quotes to Explore
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To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!
Kate Baldwin -
Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
Harold Pinter -
I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
Olivia Thirlby -
I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
Aaron Paul -
Let's create a legal system that can work.
Sam Brownback
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With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.
Mahesh Babu -
It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.
Abigail Breslin -
There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
Edmund White -
Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
Rachel Kushner -
I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.
Olivia Thirlby -
Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.
Hampton Sides
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
F. H. Bradley -
It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.
Wendy O. Williams -
The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
Daniel Gilbert -
Halva works brilliantly in ice-cream.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.
Damien Chazelle -
Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.
Victor Mature
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Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Elinor Glyn -
Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is important that African countries wake up and pool whatever resources they have and jointly deal elements pulling our continent down a death blow
Bernard Membe -
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
William Shakespeare -
All the talent in the world is useless without perseverance.
Steve Morse -
At Verve, my bookkeeper would invariably say, 'Well, why do you want to put out Roy Eldridge?' Or 'Why do you want to put out Ben Webster? They don't sell.' And I'd say, 'Well, whether they sell or not, they're important, they should be recorded and they're what Verve stands for, so we don't have to discuss that any further.
Norman Granz -
We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.
Erica Jong