Erica Jong Quotes
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.
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The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
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In Denmark, when you marry, whether you have $1 million or just $10, you share it.
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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
