Erica Jong Quotes
I think a lot of people, when they read about a woman who acknowledges her sexuality and her feelings, get really scared. They say they want to be fearless, but in reality they're terrified. If they acknowledge their deepest feelings, they might have to change their lives.
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The world is too violent right now.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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It's like deja-vu, all over again.
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When I exercise, I need to connect to myself and see how I'm feeling at the moment because my mood is constantly changing.
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I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
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It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw.
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One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: 'Write what you know.' Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies' cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are.
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This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.
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Maybe I'd be in a different place in my career if I'd had that 10-year plan, a lot of people went at it with this voracity that I never had. My only voracity was to have fun and to be in the mix.
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I think a lot of people, when they read about a woman who acknowledges her sexuality and her feelings, get really scared. They say they want to be fearless, but in reality they're terrified. If they acknowledge their deepest feelings, they might have to change their lives.
