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 moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'

  

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

  

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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.

  

  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.

  

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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.

  

  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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• Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

  

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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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• The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

  

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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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• But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window, as through the narrow crevice of one good deed in a murky life of guilt, the face of Heaven shone bright and merciful. He raised his head; gazed upward at the quiet sky, which seemed to smile upon the earth in sadness, as if the night, more thoughtful than the day, looked down in sorrow on the sufferings and evil deeds of men; and felt its peace sink deep into his heart.

  

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• The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.

  

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• Nature does nothing uselessly.

  

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• Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.

  

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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