Erica Jong Quotes

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

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• I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Work
  • Important
  • Black

• TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • School
  • Character
  • Period

• I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • College
  • Myself
  • Confidence

• I love working the legislative process.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Working
  • Process
  • Legislative

• Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Superman
  • Nobody
  • Anyone

• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Opportunity

• When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Business
  • Change
  • Look

• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Change
  • Person
  • Awareness

• I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Man
  • Feel
  • Child

• I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Good
  • Water
  • End

• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Never
  • Become

• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • World
  • May
  • Fear

• I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Long
  • Knowledge
  • Know

• Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Enough
  • Impossible
  • Most

• I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.

  

  Randall Park
  • Good
  • Work
  • Good Work

• We're just a real dirty band. We're raw, and we're rough. None of us are top-scale, top-line musicians. But I tell you what, you get your top-line musicians and see if they can entertain like us.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Real
  • Band
  • See

• I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • America
  • Running
  • Like

• I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Children
  • Mother

• George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique.

  

  Gary Wright
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I grew up beyond proud - we didn't have much, but we had a lot of love.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Up
  • Proud

• The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Business

• In my city of Maracay, there is a go kart circuit about five minutes from my home. When I was about three or four years old, I said I wanted to race, but I was too young; then, when I reached the age of seven, my father gave me a kart and we started from there.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Home
  • Age
  • Father

• It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

  

  Erica Jong
  • City
  • Mirrors
  • Mirages