Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.Jeffrey Eugenides
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
Adam Peaty -
My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
Kate Brown -
I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
Zhu Rongji -
I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
Valerie Cruz -
Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
Naomi Watts -
People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
L'Wren Scott
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
Ian MacKaye -
I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.
Nate Powell -
I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
Laura Wasser -
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
Garth Davis -
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl Marx
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
Dan Harmon -
The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
Pankaj Mishra -
I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
I like doing my own stunts.
Ram Charan -
It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
Jackie Robinson -
My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
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Happy families do have certain things in common. Today we finally have the knowledge to know what those things are.
Bruce Feiler -
The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
R. J. Cutler -
Get tough: don't work under pressure; work over pressure.
Brian Celio -
O how wild I am to get to work, my fingers farely itch & my eyes water to see a fine picture again.
Mary Cassatt -
A mathematical formula should never be 'owned' by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
Donald Knuth -
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.
Jeffrey Eugenides