Erica Jong Quotes
When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
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I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.
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Throughout the day, my phone will variously chirp, burp and growl – it's like living with a velociraptor. The last time I went to try to shut it off, the thing bit me.
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In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
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When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.
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When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan, I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide. It's very nice if you win, but it's not so good if you lose. All this is part of being a Ferrari driver.
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As a 13-year-old girl, it was never my intention to be the center of world news.
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I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.
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I think I will be a great president having to do with the military and also having to do with taking care of our vets.
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If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.
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Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
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All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.
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There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.
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Boxers are role models for a lot of young people. The sporting aspects should always be more important than business aspects.
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Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture forms, and where it all begins.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
