Erica Jong Quotes
When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.
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It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.
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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.
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The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
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New York's definitely got my heart.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.
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I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ever seen. He could bullet that ball 70 yards.
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As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
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Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
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I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.
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Citizenship is a privilege. We don't grant it to people because they think they deserve it. What have you done for the United States?
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Fear's what puts dreams to sleep.
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I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream.
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Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
