Erica Jong Quotes
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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Mostly it's like, I get inspired by something and I want to learn that part of filmmaking, I want to delve into that kind of depth. And leading, also, a lot of people. A lot of people, for two years of their life they follow me, and they believe what I believe in. So that's some responsibility and I'd like to make it worth the effort.
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These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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In art there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.
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In loving life you love what can't survive.
