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.
Natalie Zea
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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.
J. G. Ballard
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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.
Vera Wang
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid
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Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.
Natalie Dormer
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Conscience is God present in man.
Victor Hugo
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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.
Washed Out
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
Caity Lotz
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
Beatrice Wood
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
Laura Osnes
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
Bebe Rexha
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Hannah Arendt
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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.
Babyface
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
Gary Bauer
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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.
Kaley Cuoco
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
Kate Reardon
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Samuel Adams
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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.
Tariq Ali
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I love Kelly Clarkson's message, and I've heard comparisons to P!nk.
Rachel Platten
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Whenever I see a Frans Hals, I feel the desire to paint; but when I see a Rembrandt, I want to give it up.
Max Liebermann
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I was in band that played mostly covers for a while, and the bands that we would cover were, like, the alternative rock bands of that day: we did a Jane's Addiction song and a Faith No More song. All the kind of alternative radio of that time, the late '80s, basically.
Jason Mantzoukas
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I want to go someplace where I can marvel at something.
Julia Roberts
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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
Barbara Kingsolver
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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.
Jeffrey Eugenides