Erica Jong Quotes
Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.
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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 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 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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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
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I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.
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I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.
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Normally I sleep in until 7, and most days, I go right into the office. On Tuesdays, though, I stay home and do work. I need a day when I'm not in meeting after meeting. You need time to try to get into your head again and see what's next.
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I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So many families who really believed they'd 'never met one' were suddenly confronted with their sons becoming ill, and friends of sons. I think that brought a lot of it into the open.
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My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.
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We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.
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Golf is not my priority. I would hope people see me as a Christian man who loved his family, who loved being in the heat of competition and sometimes succeeded at it; who understood that golf was his job and that he was very lucky to play it for a living.
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I don't care if the critics don't like me. I want to be the people's designer, like Diana was the people's princess.
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Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.
