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.
Wayne McGregor -
But in action, one defies one's character.
Daniel Bell -
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.
Zooey Deschanel -
I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.
Randeep Hooda
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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.
Damon Albarn Gorillaz -
I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans.
Pat Robertson -
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 -
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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
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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 -
It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.
Win Butler -
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 -
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 -
I think it's important for every man to find the right woman and every woman to find the right man.
Jake Gyllenhaal
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I thought I was a pretty good physical specimen. But there was a teenager from Brooklyn, who basically wiped the floor with me on the street. He gave me a punch that I didn't even feel. All I knew I was looking up at the sky. I tried to fight him, and I got a number of injuries after that.
Bernhard Goetz -
I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.
Jackie Robinson -
When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous.
Peter Coyote -
I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.
Napoleon Hill -
If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.
Marion Barry -
I think playing the glamour card is a disastrous error as a literary writer.
Jennifer Egan