Erica Jong Quotes
Perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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I'm going to find solutions wherever I can. I think it's all a priority. You can't just say, 'OK, I'm going to work on this but not that.' You have to work on all of it.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
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The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
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I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
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I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.
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I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.
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The fight scenes are pretty easy and come pretty naturally for me, to be honest.
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A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.
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The world knows only two, - that's Rome and I.
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It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people.
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Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.
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Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.
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Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.
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His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
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Perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
