Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes
I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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The struggle against the Houthis inside Yemen is fierce. For years, powerful Yemeni tribes received money from Saudi Arabia. Now the Saudis back the Sunni tribes opposed to the Houthis with cash and arms. And then there is al-Qaida.
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As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.
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To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!
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I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.
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The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
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I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.
