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.
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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.
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If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.
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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.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!
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The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.
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When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.
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My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.
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It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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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.
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The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved.
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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.
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I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.
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I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
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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.
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In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French 'Vogue.'
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Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
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I've grown so much in the music industry. From 'GoldenHeart,' it was just about me and the music and me in this dream. With 'BlackHeart,' its more about me and who I am and what role I play in my own life and in the business.
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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego.
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There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I'm lucky I'm not plucking chickens.
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One of the reasons I work with technology the way I do is that I can really be assured that the vision I have from the outset is what will be at the end. And that that vision isn't altered through the process.
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We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.
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I would go so far as to say that I mostly write terrible things. I mean, my first drafts are so appalling.
