Erica Jong Quotes
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
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I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
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As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn't matter, what it smells like doesn't matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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Maybe because I bat aggressively and go for big hits at times, people tend to remember my batting. But I have always done well as a stumper, too.
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I've read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter account.
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You have to respect your opponent.
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I love scoring for the fans, for the team, for myself. That's not to say that I won't pass if I see a teammate in a better scoring position. But I like to score.
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The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
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Until I'm actually stood on the set doing the job, I always keep my options open.
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I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
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Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.
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My mother - who's from Iowa - owns and runs her own day-care centre, while my father's a developer. And my musical influences, I think, came from my father's side of the family.
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All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.
