Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes
Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.
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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 set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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Like anyone, I'm scared of failure. That drives you to work really hard.
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I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like that, which was what 'The Big Steal' and 'Spotswood' were about. But I guess that's the impression I left on people.
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I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.
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What I myself experience is indescribable gratitude in the face of God's perpetual and preemptive love, a love which is not contingent upon requital or even belief in His existence.
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Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.
