Erica Jong Quotes
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
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Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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'Hairspray' was a show I was involved in from the very first reading, and I was 19. And, 'Hairspray', was one of my favorite movies growing up.
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On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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My parents believed in exposing each of their children to an abundance of varied activities in the hope they would find something they loved. They each had found a passion - Dad with his music and Mom with her horses - so it was natural for them to encourage experimentation.
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People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take shortcuts can be fierce.
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When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
