Erica Jong Quotes
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter and a country singer, and there's me as a Broadway performer.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.
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I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.
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I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
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I bat righty.
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'Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a dog without a bark.
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We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.
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New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York.
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Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.
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Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.
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I have been very cautious about the films that I do. I hope to always entertain my audience. The day I am not able to do that, I will quit acting.
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I feel that every professional is the art school for the next guy. I feel that maybe a lot of the dynamism in my own work, having been felt by the rest of the artists, they'll react to it and put elements of that in their own work, feeling that it'll help it.
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Other artists' music is really what you get most inspiration from, whether consciously or subconsciously. I like a lot of old music and a lot of soul music. I also really like a lot of new stuff.
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For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
