Jennifer Egan Quotes

I think playing the glamour card is a disastrous error as a literary writer.

Jennifer Egan

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• I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Think
  • Dance
  • Audience

• But in action, one defies one's character.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Character
  • Action

• Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Human

• I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Tights

• I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Mind
  • More
  • German

• I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Happy
  • Man

• Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Friends
  • Catholics
  • Roman

• I know how to stand up for myself. I say no when I want to, yes when I want to, and no one can really change my mind.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Change

• Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Strong

• Around here, ma’am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain’t eating then they lying.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Peace
  • Running
  • Humanity

• I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

• The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • World

• It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.

  

  Win Butler
  • Career

• Like pretty much every short story writer, I submitted to every market under the sun and hoped for the best. The rejection letters I've collected over the years can probably make a book of their own.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Book
  • Pretty
  • Sun

• Too many younger people seem to prefer following celebrities instead of doing the work required to get an education that will someday lead to a job. If students today spent as much time on math and science and history as they do following these shallow celebrities, they might actually become contributors to society someday.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I think it's important for every man to find the right woman and every woman to find the right man.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Important

• Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Thought
  • Birth
  • Bodies

• Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

  

  Edward Bellamy
  • Men

• There's not a whole lot to do in Athens. When I was 13, I just started entertaining myself by writing songs. I'd sit in my room for 10 hours playing the same song, stacking vocals, trying out different drum beats, realizing no one would ever hear this but having so much fun. I guess I got my voice from just doing that so often.

  

  Brittany Howard
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.

  

  Chris Isaak
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I think playing the glamour card is a disastrous error as a literary writer.

  

  Jennifer Egan