Erica Jong Quotes
As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
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I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
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I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.
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The Department of Energy is a critical component of our efforts to curtail climate change; that work will be less effective unless we collaboratively rebuild confidence in the agency and its programs.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. He's done everything for me and I owe him the world.
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I've heard that I could be facing Randy Couture. That would a great.
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When I work onstage, I want to play roles that have real, deep theatricality, that aren't the sort you would easily see on television and in the movies.
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He is the richest man in the esteem of the world who has gotten the most. He is the richest man in the esteem of Heaven who has given the most.
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The channels of human mental development... are circuitous and variable. Rather than specify a single trait, human genes prescribe the capacity to develop a certain array of traits.
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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
