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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Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease.
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The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.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've always wanted to act; I just didn't know how to get into it. It kind of just happened. Dance brought me into it.
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The thing that's strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars.
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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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Go on, get some pork on your fork!
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'That’s been a hashtag fail.' And on the temptations stemming from a life of crime: 'With the bling and everything that comes with it.'
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Your father cares as little as we do. It's just that he tends to despair, while we are full of hope.
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I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
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Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn't be relied on to guard henhouses.
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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.
