Erica Jong Quotes

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

Erica Jong

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AdviceSometimesHimTakeSuperior

I do get scared of the dentist, so a drive-through dentist might make me feel more at home. If I got to stay in my car.

Jessica Pare

HomeCarMeFeelMoreScared

When Roger Ailes hired me, he knew I was the daughter of a college professor and a nurse. There was nothing in this resume that would telegraph, 'She's a secret conservative.'

Megyn Kelly

DaughterCollegeMeResumeNothing

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

Robert Lansing

ManMindMeLooking ForwardForward

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

Michael Ironside

FreedomPeopleMeBetterOverYears

My biggest fear in life is living Nativity scenes. I hide in cars and drive around looking at them. Something about it is really scary to me. What parent would put their child in there with mules and camels and straw?

John Waters

LifeFearChildMeLookingDrive

Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

Sloane Crosley

BirthdayTimeDoctorReadingThree

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.

Toru Takemitsu

MusicHistoryArtMusiciansBorn

Television is not a gimmick.

Roger Ailes

SmartPeopleNewsGoPrettyWatch

I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.

Lucian Freud

ArtI AmMePaintingEndDoing

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Don Shula

WisdomManOthersSuperiorInferior

But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.

Dick Van Dyke

AirPrettyAmsterdamGotStuckOnce

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

Dennis Potter

MeTelevisionFilthMr

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