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Quotes
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Authors
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Erica Jong
"We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep."
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Erica Jong
#Baby Quotes
#Sleep Quotes
#Perfection Quotes
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“I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.”
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“Anybody that I ever dealt with knows that I'm a very focused individual, and when it comes to my work and what I do, you might have to play the back burner to that.”
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“Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out?”
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“I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.”
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“But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute.”
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“A foundation is a large amount of money completely surrounded by people who want some.”
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“None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the action of another. For this good and valid reason, we're told not to judge. Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.”
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“I was approached by the filmmakers. I didn't know much about the project ["Selling Isobel"], and the more we talked, the more they started to confide in me. I read the script and thought it was really interesting, and then a week later I discovered that this wasn't just any old script, this was actually Frida's [Farell] story and she was trusting me to tell it. I felt very privileged.”
