Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes
The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
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One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
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... my century.. is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when a decisive part of the most articulate section of mankind has not merely ceased to believe in God, but has deliberately rejected God. And it is the century in which this religious rejection has taken a specifically political form.
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Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.
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The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
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The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
