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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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 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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What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.
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I'm claustrophobic. I can't go into haunted houses. They have these tight, dark, enclosed space. I freak out. That's my phobia. It gets me out of stuff. Someone asks me to do something and I tell them I can't because I'm claustrophobic.
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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
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People ask me, 'Why are you still writing books?' Like I'm still only writing to make money and as soon as I have enough I'll quit and go fishing? I like to write books. It's the most satisfying thing I do.
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Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.
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Feminism means to me being comfortable with who you are as a woman and being unapologetic about it.
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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.
