Erica Jong Quotes
I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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We have a relationship with Syria, an old relationship. We also have good relations with the people of Syria, with all segments of the population. This is the situation as well in Iraq and other countries.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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I am a believer in the journey and enjoying the journey.
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Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.
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I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.
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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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I'm from Michigan and a down-home girl.
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A lot of the rap shows I saw as a kid were boring, but if you went to a Rage show or a Justice show, the kids were losing their minds.
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If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.
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I would come home from school every Wednesday, order pizza, and watch 'X-Files.' I was devoted.
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I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.
