Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes
When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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Cinema and the arts invite viewers to focus on a story and, in doing so, peel away its layers and peer into the depths of the human soul.
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Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
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The sad fact is that it would be fair to say that United is a generic, bureaucratic, tired company. A sort of DMV in the sky. No real culture. No real strategy. No real expectations for employees or customers. All of which is a shame.
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If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.
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Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
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I was kind of the black sheep with the Disney kids. I was uninterested in making friends with most of them. I didn't really fall into 'the Disney mold.' I was more or less the kid hanging out with the crew members and got along with them far better.
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I'd love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He's one of my heroes. I think he's absolutely amazing and I would love to do a project with him.
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One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.
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I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'
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I think Russia is a difficult country, and it's very difficult for people to adapt here, especially if they don't speak the language well.
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The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
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Saying you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's awesome, and it's out of your control, and it's not a career path.
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'I want to know how many years I got.''Many,' said Ta-Kumsaw. 'Or few. All that matters is what you do with however many years you have.'
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The reason why all those we have mentioned hold false opinions and make impious or ignorant assertions about God appears to be nothing else but this, that scripture is not understood in its spiritual sense, but is interpreted according to the bare letter.
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A writer is in the end not his books, but his myth. And that myth is in the keeping of others.
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I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.
Elliott Erwitt -
I came from a town of about 2,000 people with one stop light, and I was told that nothing I ever wanted to do, I would succeed in.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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I want to make an album with just great beats and big vocals and just amazing lyrics.
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When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.
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When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.
