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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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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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
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I have a song I wrote called “Autobiography.” I came from a very intense living situation, with having a parent on drugs and not having a lot of money. So I always want to talk about the real things. But I think 90 percent of my music, I want it to be 'feel-good music'. I'm already recording tracks for my album, but when it comes time to actually say, 'this is the album,' I may be in a completely different space than I'm in right now.
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I'm not in public service, nor do I ever plan to be, but I give back in my own way.
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Every time I'm in Canada I feel more Swedish, and every time I'm in Sweden I feel more Canadian. I belong in both places and I love them both equally. It's funny because the Swedes claim me as their Swedish pride and the Canadians call me their Canadian girl. I'll take it all.
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I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.
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In loving life you love what can't survive.
