Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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• I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

  

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• There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.

  

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

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• I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

  

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• When you promise something, you must fulfill it.

  

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• Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

  

  Dale Carnegie
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• The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.

  

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• I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.

  

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• I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

  

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• I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.

  

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• The emotions of the game do not change.

  

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• After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.

  

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• Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

  

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• I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.

  

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• I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.

  

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• I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.

  

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• It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.

  

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• 'The Master' with Joaquin Phoenix puts up a good fight, but my favorite movie of all time is 'The Wizard of Oz.' I just love it. I watched it over and over again as a child, and I think it has all the elements of wonder, and it's a beautiful story.

  

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• Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.

  

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• After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.

  

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• I've done a bunch of Broadway, so I'm a theater nerd when I come to New York.

  

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• I wanted to burn down the 'École de Beaux Arts' with my cobalts and vermilions and I wanted to express my feelings with my brushes without troubling what painting was like before me.. .Life and me, me and life.

  

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• I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.

  

  Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Work
  • English
  • Literature