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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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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Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.
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Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.
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When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't understand that somebody can be different and live a different lifestyle and still be a regular person. I was the same way when I was a kid.
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I never even think about the physicality of roles, until honestly I get the gig and I think, 'OK, now what do I have to do in this one?' Like, I approach it thinking more about the character - do I respond to it? Is it something I think I can play? Does it seem like it'll be fun?
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I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript.
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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.
