Erica Jong Quotes

it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born.

Erica Jong

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• I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.

  

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• I love my work, and I feel fortunate to be doing a job I love, but it isn't the centre of my life.

  

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• I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.

  

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• I think violence can never be justified.

  

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• In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.

  

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• I always wanted pink hair.

  

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• God is waiting for us, to forgive us all, and what is broken, he'll fix.

  

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• Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

  

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• There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.

  

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• The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

  

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• I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

  

  Beau Bridges
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• For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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• I laugh about it all the time, but, for whatever reason, a lot of people think that I wear a wig. I get emails and tweets about people commenting on my hair being a wig. It's one of the strangest but most entertaining things I've read about myself online.

  

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• I'm not interested in disposable music.

  

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• Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together.

  

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• Once you figure out what your passion is, surround yourself with like-minded people who can help you grow.

  

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• Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

  

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• People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who's spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It's flattering, but I've not got that much of a gameplan.

  

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• it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Hate
  • Sometimes
  • Audience