Erica Jong Quotes
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At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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We grow small trying to be great.
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My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.
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One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.
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Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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Winning my first UFC fight by a finish, I've never felt so accomplished in my life.
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It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with it. I wouldn't say it if I ain't think so, 'cause 'The Truth' was my baby. That's the pure album.
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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
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I have some wigs at home just for fun. Throughout my years, my hair has been treated in a not very nice way, so I have to be careful.
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My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.
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I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.
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You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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Having really good ideas comes from being able to listen to everybody else and see what their ideas are, because they're coming from a completely different place. That's always been important. It's part of being in a band.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
