Erica Jong Quotes
What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
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You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.
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For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else.
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A fixed deadline and a flexible scope are the crucial combination.
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I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from the crowd a little bit.
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In 2001, we went to raise some $3 million in venture capital in the U.S. and got rejected. So we’ve come back and raised a little bit more: $25 billion. This is not money; this is trust from the world, trust from the people.
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I feel like you become a songwriter when you claim that it's sort of like a switch flipped, and you're always writing. Even in your sleep, you're always thinking about it in the back of your mind. The true writing - when you're officially writing - that's just when its front of mind, but its always there. You're always listening for a hook.
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If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
