Erica Jong Quotes

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

Erica Jong

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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
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• 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
  • Work
  • Smart
  • Profound

• 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
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• 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
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• I'm competitive. I don't like to lose.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Like
  • Lose
  • Competitive

• I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • Pressure

• 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
  • People
  • Truth
  • Dumb

• Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Long
  • Fashion
  • Interest

• 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
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• 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
  • Up
  • Different
  • Want

• I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Father
  • Know
  • More

• 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
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I strongly believe that good books are the best home accessory.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Home

• A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Band
  • Face

• We all have to make choices in life.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Choices
  • Make

• My acting coach makes the impossible accessible.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Acting
  • Impossible
  • Coach

• 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
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• Unfettered, creative, and enthusiastic entrepreneurship is one of the hallmarks of American life, and it has allowed us to attract the best and brightest to this country.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Country
  • American

• Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I think a majority of the people like what he's doing.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • People
  • Think
  • Trump

• The need to do something about global warming is obvious. And it's also pretty clear that the public understands the need for change and is ready to embrace it. What is missing is political will in Congress to stand up to the powerful energy companies and their well-paid lobbyists.

  

  Chellie Pingree
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Political

• Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is nature's red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.

  

  Li Keqiang
  • Nature
  • Light
  • Model

• I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteem, Or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams. I use it as my gas, so they say that I'm gassed, But without it I'd be last, so I ought to laugh.

  

  Kanye West
  • Power
  • Dream

• Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

  

  Erica Jong
  • World
  • Crazy
  • Exceptional