Erica Jong Quotes
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there's a little bit of the Blue Blazer in each and every one of us.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
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I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.
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People making it like I sit there and eat a whole plate of candy before I play a basketball game. I don't think anyone could do that.
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I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.
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So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.
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I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
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When I was shooting 'The Dark Knight,' I always felt like I was shooting an intimate drama for some reason. The scenes were all intimate, and they were always between a few individuals.
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I'm not going to run around uselessly spending money. It's a matter of choosing your charity. Some people choose themselves. For me, that is not enough.
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Like any classic you hope to get rid of all the varnish that's built up over the centuries where people expect it to be in a certain way. It's a mighty play. It's about a very old king who also happens to be a very old father, so you've got the state and the domestic levels in there together. It's a story in extremis. Everyone knows the end, there's only two people left alive.
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I love key lime pie, although it's never made the proper way.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
