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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Conscience is God present in man.
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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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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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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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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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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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As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme.
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Freedom is... not to be bound by my wounds. And to be able to eat cake every day.
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Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.
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I went with Beach Fossils and we played 40 shows because we wanted people to see us.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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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.
