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.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
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.
Tanit Phoenix -
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.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
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.
Rae Carson -
I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
Bebe Rexha -
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
Warren Bennis
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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.
Randy Wayne White -
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
Patrick Stewart -
Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus -
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Aaron Copland -
I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
Dan Marino
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One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
Ed Begley, Jr. -
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
Patrice Leconte -
I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.
Patrick Duffy -
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.
Yoweri Museveni -
The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.
Karl Marx -
The world is rapidly getting 'Ahmadinejadized,' if I'm allowed to make a joke. (20 November 2006)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.
Jessica Lange -
You can easily put together your own favorite spice blend, whether that's a salt and pepper mixture or you're adding herbs to it or Creole spice. Just watch out for the sodium content. That why I encourage you to make your own.
Emeril Lagasse -
Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).
Jerry Saltz -
Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.
Patricia Birch -
Art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.
Erica Jong