Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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• Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Made
  • Tolerance
  • Liberal

• We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Nation
  • Dictatorship

• A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Important
  • Long
  • Pretty

• I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • America

• I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Me
  • Water
  • Little

• I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Children
  • Me
  • Dying

• You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Black
  • Beginning
  • Heaven

• If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

  

  Sam Snead
  • People
  • Death
  • Sports

• In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Been
  • Attack
  • Almost

• He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Silly
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Want
  • You
  • Say

• I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Today
  • Respect
  • Perfect

• Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by newspapers and magazines. They were my TV. I'd be the first one up to grab the morning paper, mainly to look at the sports pictures, the war pictures.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Up
  • War
  • Morning

• A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten hungry and eaten again, you're doing something wrong.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Hungry

• Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Thanks

• I think the best endings bring you back in rather than close things off with absolute finality. I'm not saying they necessarily have to be ambiguous, but we don't always need to know what happens when everyone wakes up tomorrow morning.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Best

• Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting, you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick, or whatever. In sculpture, you can get a rock. Writing, you just need a pencil and paper. Film has been a very elitist medium. It costs so much money.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Money

• If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Travel

• I need to write a sitcom, but something with warmth, not one where the dad comes home and he's treated like an idiot.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Home
  • Dad

• You could do a scene that takes 15 hours, but in the movie, it's only 10 minutes. The scene where they put the sauce poisoning in; it took eight hours.

  

  Kel Mitchell
  • Movie

• Music combines the temporal aspects of film and dance with the spatial aspects of painting and sculpture, where pitch space (or frequency space) takes the place of three-dimensional physical space... frequency maps in the auditory cortex... function much the way that spatial maps do in the visual cortex.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Music
  • Space
  • Dance

• Freedom comes with the impossibility of choosing.

  

  Stephen Hough
  • Freedom
  • Choosing
  • Impossibility

• I love all girl squads. I'm all for, like, girl power and friendship, and I'm all about that.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Power
  • Girl
  • Friendship

• That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.

  

  Jeffrey Eugenides