Erica Jong Quotes
You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.
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I'm incredibly humbled that the leader of the modern liberty movement and strong conservative leader Congressman Ron Paul is backing our campaign.
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To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.
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You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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We filmed 'Expelled' in Santa Clarita at an all-girl's school. There were twelve hour days.
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I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.
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Politics won't allow for the truth.
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No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
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I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
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Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.
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More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world. We are well-connected, we have ample capacity, and we are starting from a position of strength. The problem is that we don't use that capacity well.
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I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.
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For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.
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Happiness, in truth, may not be the fruit plucked by my action yet without action all fruit will die on the vine. I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.
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Death slue not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.
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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
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Most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.
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You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
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All the people with whom I was very close at one point in my life - Stockhausen, Berio, Ligeti, Nono, Bernd Alois Zimmermann - they are all gone.
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You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.
