Erica Jong Quotes

Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

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• While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.

  

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• I don't know what's on the other side.

  

  Patrick Swayze
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• Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
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• For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
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• I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

  

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• Your mind is what makes everything else work.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• There's no regrets for me.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.

  

  Sally Phillips
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• I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.

  

  Natalia Kills
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• I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.

  

  Pat Brown
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• Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.

  

  Zac Posen
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• Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as distinctive markers of Negritude. These include the shapes of heads, feet, lips, and noses as well as the texture of hair.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • America
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• Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

  

  Damian Loeb
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  • Memories
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• If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Time
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• I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I'll take it.

  

  Malin Akerman
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• The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
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• I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
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• We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.

  

  Major Owens
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• It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.

  

  Sarah Dessen
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• Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'

  

  Ted McGinley
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• Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.

  

  Walter Raleigh
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• I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.

  

  Bernie Leadon The Eagles
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• Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Writing
  • Easy
  • Said