Erica Jong Quotes
We all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.
Quotes to Explore
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
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Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn't only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.
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One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.
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In 1955, when I'd write a science-fiction novel, I'd set it in the year 2000. I realised around 1977 that, 'My God, it's getting exactly like those novels we used to write in the 1950s!' Everything's just turning out to be real.
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My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance.
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The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.
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We all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.
