Erica Jong Quotes
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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The fans are always at the hotel waiting, they like to get pictures and autographs. I enjoy it all, the displays of love and support at the hotel and the shows.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Actually, I'm not a gym rat. I'm not a gym person - I've never been. I've always been blessed to be thin. If I'm waiting for the kettle to boil, I'm doing 15 lunges.
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I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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Your environment doesn't define you. I don't have a lot of money, but I can help train people and I can talk to people. We can all be mentors to the next generation.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial.
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At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.
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I don't run behind authority.
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I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was pretty good. I used to train with Atletico Nacional, which is one of the most important teams in Colombia. I used to train every day.
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You have to be resilient.
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I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.
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God keeps me grounded as well as my husband, Keith Douglas, who is such an inspiration to me. He's an author, speaker, and businessman. He's just a great husband and blessing.
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
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I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
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We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.
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There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
