Erica Jong Quotes
You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
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I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!
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Oddly enough, I've always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn't use enough was Phoenix. I just thought her story line was so tragic. I was just really drawn to that character as well.
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What is the world coming to?
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I basically raised myself.
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Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.
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I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.
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To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.
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There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
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The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.
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During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.
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In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.
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There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
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By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
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It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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I don't really try to tell people whether they should fight. It's definitely not for everybody.
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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
