Erica Jong Quotes
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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A novel is not a rant.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.
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I seemed to have been born reading.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.
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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
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Brazil is one of the biggest Latin American countries, the biggest, no doubt, and, more importantly, it is a country with immense development potential.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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I think men and women are the same. Even as parents, I think we're the same. We're just conditioned to think that we're different. Having said that, it's true that motherhood is a particularly vulnerable area. It's an open wound, really. A woman is exposed to being turned into a different kind of person by the experience of motherhood.
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Old things have strange hungers.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
