Erica Jong Quotes
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
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My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
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Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.
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History will treat me right.
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Look, natural gas, just like oil, is going to eventually go away. It's not renewable.
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I've had Republicans come to me and say, 'Tell me how I should talk to young people!' as if it's some foreign language or something.
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Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.
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The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.
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I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'
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The world knows only two, - that's Rome and I.
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So breaks the sun earth's rugged chains, Wherein rude winter bound her veins; So grows both stream and source of price, That lately fettered were with ice. So naked trees get crispèd heads, And coloured coats the roughest meads, And all get vigour, youth and spright, That are but looked on by his light.
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Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.
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Bonobos are not monkeys! Bonobos are apes.
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My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down the lyrics of all of my favourite songs, and sing along. I was always singing in my bedroom with a hairbrush.
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Fear is like fire; it can be helpful if you know how to use. If not, you'll get burned.
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After a lifetime of living on hope because there is nothing but hope, one loses the taste for victory.
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I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. I cannot save you. For poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.
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I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
