Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.

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• We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
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• First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.

  

  Tea Leoni
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• Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.

  

  Dan Quinn
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• I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

  

  Imelda Marcos
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• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
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• Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Nature
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• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Energy
  • Hand

• I think a woman looks best in a sari.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Think
  • Best
  • Woman

• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.

  

  Naomi Wolf
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• To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

  

  Rand Paul
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• As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.

  

  Samantha Fox
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• The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

  

  Ike Skelton
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• Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

  

  Barbara Boxer
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• The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• I was born a singer. I need to do that.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
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• I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
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• I don't play accurately — any one can play accurately — but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
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• Some people have a phobia of midgets. They're, like, scared of them. I have the opposite - I see them, and I want to hold them down, cuddle them, be like, 'Come here, you little nugget. Who's your mommy now?' So cute!

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • People
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• If I have to play an obnoxious character, try to find a redeeming feature of him. The most obnoxious people in the world were people, and they had had a reason for doing what they did. So you try to find that and let the obnoxiousness come out.

  

  Fred Willard
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• Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.

  

  Arlene Croce
  • Writing
  • Happened
  • Explain

• Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.

  

  Jeffrey Eugenides
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