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The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.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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Suffering does not discriminate.
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I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.
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In a perfect world an idea could be born, nourished, developed and made known to everyone, criticized and perfected, and put to good use without the crude fact of financial support ever entering in to the process. Seldom, if ever, in the practical world in which we live does this occur.
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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
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I don't like actors, I like women.
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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.
