Erica Jong Quotes
Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
Erica Jong
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But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.
Dana Rohrabacher
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I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.
Gary Numan
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
Wallace Shawn
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Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures or class.
Dan Hill
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
J. B. Pritzker
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Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
Zara Larsson
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After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.
Sigmund Freud
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Clothes have memories, and sometimes you don't want to remember. People remember where they bought the clothes, who gave them, or where they stole them from.
Sam Worthington
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung
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We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.
Flannery O'Connor
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Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.
Ivo Andric
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
Erica Jong
