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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Blessed are the pure in heart; how will people believe that, unless we ourselves are worshipping the living God until our own hearts are set on fire and scorched through with his purity?
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Moments later he punched her unconscious. No, he didn't, don't send us letters.
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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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I'm not satisfied. I'm still enjoying this. I still feel like I'm in the best part of my career and I can play at a high level. This is what I love to do: playing football and winning games.
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I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?
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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.
