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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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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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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Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.
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One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and confessing Him as Lord. We have made two experiences of it, but the New Testament makes them one.
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I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.
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It was a kindness that was hard to understand... and the most selfishness she's ever shown.
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Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.
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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.
