Jennifer Egan Quotes
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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.
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But in action, one defies one's character.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.
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I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.
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I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.
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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.
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I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans.
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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.
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Around here, ma’am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain’t eating then they lying.
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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.
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
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It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.
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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.
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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.
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I think it's important for every man to find the right woman and every woman to find the right man.
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That's really important to me - creating moments that last forever.
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Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
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Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions,-as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running.
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If your are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.
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I think playing the glamour card is a disastrous error as a literary writer.
