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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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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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 have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media.
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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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What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us?
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You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.
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Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.
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Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
