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 have sometimes questioned the advice and direction I received from my parents and grandparents, but I never questioned the fact that they loved me. I learned that they were in a better position to know more about right and wrong than I did from my limited understanding and from my limited experience.
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Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.
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While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground.
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I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting.
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It bugs me when they have people my age 28 playing teenagers.
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Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.
