Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes
I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
Quotes to Explore
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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I never want to make any characters one-dimensional, especially as women can often be portrayed as the dark one or the evil one.
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In primary school, every day and especially on Fridays, I was supposed to say, 'I am Turkish, and I am righteous and hardworking,' But all those things did not actually turn us into Turks. This system is somehow creating fake personalities.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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Time and space are only forms of thought.
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I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
