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.
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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!
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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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.
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I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.
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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.
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It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.
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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.
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Halva works brilliantly in ice-cream.
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Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.
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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.
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How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?
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If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics
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I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.
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I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.
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A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.
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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.
