Jennifer Egan Quotes

I would go so far as to say that I mostly write terrible things. I mean, my first drafts are so appalling.

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• I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • System
  • Mess

• Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimov, I could write a paragraph about how each of these writers influenced me, my writing, and my thoughts, and do to this day.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Thoughts

• If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Audience
  • Expectation
  • Satisfied

• I was raised by two actors in a moment in time - the Seventies - when there was no judgment of characters, no heroes and bad guys.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Moment

• History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • First
  • Tragedy

• When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Always
  • Need
  • Hammer

• The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • World
  • Today
  • Peace

• My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.

  

  Kate Millett
  • You
  • Sister
  • Said

• It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Sound
  • Determined
  • Rebellion

• Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.

  

  Zalmay Khalilzad
  • World
  • Future
  • Success

• The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Love
  • Learn
  • Greatest

• The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Live
  • Evil
  • Democracy

• I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Successful

• I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • War
  • Girl

• With young people, I always say, 'You're not doing anyone any favours by withholding your power.' As women, we do that a lot because we are afraid of being misunderstood or perceived as too strong. But the older I'm getting, the more I realise you have to let that go.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French 'Vogue.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Never
  • Years

• 'Satan is a tool of God's love in the sense that he forces us to see God's loving patience.' - Answers to 200 of Life's most Probing Questions

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Life
  • God
  • Patience

• By 2050 there will be almost 2.5 times as many people here as in 1960: 420 million. The share of the population of European descent will be a minority as it is today in California, Texas and New Mexico. And that minority will be aging, shrinking and dying. There will be as many Hispanics here, 102 million, as there are Mexicans today in Mexico...

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • Today
  • Dying

• I liked it so much, I bought the company

  

  Victor Kiam

• I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Life
  • Art

• I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.

  

  David Prowse

• The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Fear
  • Growing
  • Tyranny

• I would go so far as to say that I mostly write terrible things. I mean, my first drafts are so appalling.

  

  Jennifer Egan