Erica Jong Quotes

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Erica Jong

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LoveFriendsSometimesLuckyPretty

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

Jessica Lange

LeadershipManMindSufferingBeen

High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, teach us to consider the world from a fresh perspective, to open our eyes and take account of what we have missed, reminding us that, in spite of our emphasis on the visual in everyday speech, we see so very little of the world.

John Burnside

EyesPerspectiveWorldDesertSpeech

If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.

Meg Cabot

GoodWordsWritingChanceEndYou

If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.

Stuart Appleby

WalkMeLovedDoingCowMilk

It's not that I can't collaborate. It's just that I don't know how to say no to people. If someone's like, 'Let's write a song together,' it's like, 'You'll write the song, and I'm gonna okay everything.' It's very hard to think that their ideas work with what I'm trying to do.

Soccer Mommy

WorkTogetherPeopleIdeasSongYou

American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead.

Tom Wolfe

GovernmentPeopleAmericanYouTrain

My story is a little unorthodox. At first, I just wanted to book a commercial. I didn't have any expectations, and I wanted to try something new.

Rotimi

BookExpectationsStoryNewTry

There was a time, in the not so distant past, that if you didn't have what you needed on Thanksgiving, you were pretty much going to have to wait until Friday. Not anymore!

Monica Johnson

TimePastWaitFridayYouPretty

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

Jones Very

GreatSoulMysteryEnemyWrestling

Like most people, I woke up one day to find that everyone I knew was taking antidepressants, and since I wasn't, I figured that I must be the cause of their depression.

Christopher Moore

DepressionDayPeopleFindOne Day

A carbon tax by itself would make driving more expensive, that's very true. But in exchange for that, there are going to be more jobs, more output, more employment, and more products available. So really, as long as you're going to collect the revenues you're going to collect, you're going to have to trade off one tax for the other.

Arthur Laffer

DrivingLongYouTaxTrueMore

I don't really know, I was thinking about that the other day that there aren't a lot of younger up and comers that I'm that interested in, in the comedy world. Everyone seems to be trying to play it safe.

Tim Heidecker

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