Erica Jong Quotes
There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.

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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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Whatever you want to call it, they have all these names for these coverages, I've seen them. Like those linemen coming out to jam me on the line of scrimmage. A lot of crazy stuff.
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Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.
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Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.
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Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.
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I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.
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Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.
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I'm a little untidy, and my favorite color is gray, and I'm always scurrying around in a panic.
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In those days, there was no money to buy books.
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The production pushes and pulls you as much as the song does. It's almost more to do with the production value of how each bit was done as opposed to the actual track itself.
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There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people, and these extreme, radical fundamentalists who have shown a total lack of tolerance for people with different views, starting with people who they don't think are good Muslims, and going on to include Christians and Jews.
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There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.