Erica Jong Quotes
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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I want to make a name for myself.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
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I hope they can see that as a consumer, if they express themselves, they may make an impact and leverage their impact on the brands, and the brands can leverage their buying power on tens of thousands of polluters - suppliers - in China.
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If I am elected president, keep an eye on the tarmac, because I'll be back, because Iowa in 2017 will not be fly-over country. It will be fly-to country.
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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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My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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Tolerance is another word for indifference.
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Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
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In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.
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Oh salty sea, how much of your salt are tears of Portugal!
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I don't think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.
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Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable.
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I never really was much of a practical jokester or anything.
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It's difficult sometimes to become friends with actors.
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Making movies is about control. You need to control your narcissism in the first place, and you need to be disciplined enough to understand the reason for the film. You need to follow the agenda of the film, not a personal agenda or that of the studio. Or, worst of all, of the actors.
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Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.
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I'm not a lesbian. I just think that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes.
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They can't understand why any American in his right mind who's not escaping a jail term or something, would voluntarily want to come to South Korea and live here.
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Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
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A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
