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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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
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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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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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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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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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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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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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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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Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
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Mr. [John] Barrymore's smile was the smile of an actor who hates actors, and who knows that he is going to kill two or three before the play is over. I am not an actor-killer, but I like my Hamlets to dislike actors, if you know what I mean, and I think you don't.
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The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.'
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It's very hard to get one publisher to accept an author going over to the other author's company to collaborate.
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Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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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.
