Erica Jong Quotes
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.
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We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
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It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.
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Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...
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I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.
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As the generation of leaves, so too is the generation of men. And as for leaves, the winds scatter some on the earth, But the new wood puts forth others, and spring comes again. So it is with men: as one generation is born, another dies.
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You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business. They are two different things.
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Art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.
