Erica Jong Quotes

Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.

Erica Jong

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• You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Want
  • Past
  • Mission

• I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • College
  • King
  • Students

• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• I am healthy and happy.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Happy
  • Healthy

• Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • History
  • Easy

• I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • God
  • Health

• A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Party
  • Belief
  • Facts

• Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • Great
  • Always

• I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Day
  • Doing
  • Coaching

• I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Same
  • Strength

• I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Life
  • Taken

• Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Future
  • Science
  • Fear

• A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

  

  Harold W. Dodds
  • Heart
  • Hard
  • Head

• In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• When we fought for freedom, for the establishment of a Jewish state, we didn't send a questionnaire to the Jewish nation asking if it wanted a Jewish state.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Freedom
  • Nation
  • Asking

• I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Process
  • Songs

• The summer before I started college, my parents walked everywhere instead of taking the bus. Once a week, they would hand over $10 to the university housing office, a deposit so I could move into the dorms in the fall.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Parents
  • College
  • Hand

• The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

  

  Ahmad Jamal
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Gold
  • Brave

• You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real.

  

  Libba Bray
  • Life
  • Different
  • Real

• I dropped out of high school when I was, like, 15, so I just focused on doing music. It's all I wanted to do; I didn't want to work or anything else. I took all the negativity and obstacles that came with life, and I just put it in the music.

  

  Micheal Ray Stevenson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• I go back so far I'm in front of me.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Fronts

• Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Dog