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 -
Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.
Rand Paul -
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
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Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.
Victor Mature -
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
Quentin Crisp -
The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can write things that let them use those talents of association and intuition-all the things they’ve developed together as a group.
Terrence Mitchell Riley -
I loved the adrenalin rush of the skeleton, and would love to do it as a Paralympic sport if they ever bring it into the Games.
Heather Mills -
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