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.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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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.

  

  Laila Ali
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• I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

  

  Maddie Hasson
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• When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

  

  Owen Hart
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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.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.

  

  Ram Charan
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• Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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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.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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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.

  

  Ted Turner
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• Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
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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.

  

  Adam Lamberg
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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.

  

  Jack Reynor
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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.

  

  Jack Welch
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• I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'

  

  Taylor Momsen
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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.

  

  Maelle Gavet
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• The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

  

  Natalie Wood
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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.

  

  Cameron Russell
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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.'

  

  Orson Scott Card

• 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.

  

  Origen
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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.

  

  V. S. Naipaul

• It would have been better to come back at the same hour,” said the fox. “If, for example, you came at four o’clock in the afternoon, then at three o’clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o’clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am! But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you . . . One must observe the proper rites . . .

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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• America's the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• I had the trade minister in China sit down as we were preparing for trade negotiations. He said, 'Please don't let people in the United States lose their confidence because when you lose your confidence, the rest of the world suffers'.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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• The survival of love depends on the management of change.

  

  Ari Kiev
  • Love
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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.

  

  Jeffrey Eugenides