Erica Jong Quotes
Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion for passion?
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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One of the things I have to do, and I'm working on it, is making sure I enjoy the ride along the way. I have to remind myself, 'Take a look around, look at things, and enjoy it.'
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.
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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
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Surviving is the only glory in war.
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I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.
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Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
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I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.
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My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.
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At 14, I began working in radio. I ran the board at a little radio station in Dallas.
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I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.
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I grew up in Christianity. They preach a lot that you should get married and be a wife and be a virtuous woman and all of that. So I was so eager to do that, and I didn't really take the time I needed to grow into my own. And I ended up running into a really bad situation. I didn't even really date my ex-husband. We just kind of jumped into it.
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I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and talented, and we can problem solve together.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion for passion?
