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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I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.
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There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.
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If a marker were to be erected today, it might read, in homage to his scientific courage: 'He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions.'
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Defensively, we let some things happen that we shouldn't have. They get 49 points, and there's a whole bunch of those that I don't like how they got them.
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We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.
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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.
