Erica Jong Quotes
Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.
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We're not Seattle East. We're our own Atlanta, and there are definitely things I learned from Coach Carroll. He had probably the single biggest influence on my coaching career.
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The track is fast and I appreciate anything is possible.
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The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.
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There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.
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Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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I had a two-dribble limit.
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People either love me or they think I'm obnoxious. I get that.
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People are hysterical about the death of newspapers, and I would say, 'They're not dying; they're just kind of reinventing themselves.'
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Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.
