Erica Jong Quotes
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
Zoe Kravitz -
In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
Maira Kalman -
I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson -
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
Harry Caray -
I'm competitive. I don't like to lose.
Odell Beckham, Jr. -
I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
Sam Claflin
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
Olivia Wilde -
Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.
Raf Simons -
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.
Owain Yeoman -
I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
I strongly believe that good books are the best home accessory.
Rachel Nichols
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We all have to make choices in life.
Laura Schlessinger -
My acting coach makes the impossible accessible.
Karolina Kurkova -
The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it's cheaper, and it has a great image, and you just can't beat it at night. It's pulling in variations of colors; it's pulling in lights from 40 miles away - a candle would be seen.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
Pat Brown -
I grew up on the side of the stage. I never had a fear of an audience. I never felt like they were separated from us. We were all in the living room, and it happens to be a big living room. I continue to operate on that assumption.
Carlene Carter -
I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
Larry David
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I've spent my life doing action films and most of my own stunts, so my teeth have been knocked out along the way. It happened so frequently that I can't even remember where I lost most of them.
James Cosmo -
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John F. Kennedy -
The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.
Amy Poehler -
Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
Erica Jong