We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate. - Erica Jong

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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.

Erica Jong

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.

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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Guy, Love, Smart, Witty, Women

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

Art, Children, Perpetually, Think, Thinking

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Lucas Mann

For better or worse, I seem to gravitate toward writing about something or someone else, then have my own self shove its way into that story. It seems insanely narcissistic. But I also think there's a particular effect that comes from using my autobiography in service to another story, as opposed to being the subject. I'm much more comfortable working in that mode. And I do think I have a persona or mood that I keep coming back to: self-conscious, self-critical, unsure. I write a lot about bodies, particularly male ones, usually as a point of emphasis for my insecurities about my own.

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It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.

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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.

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Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

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