Jennifer Egan Quotes

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

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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

• You don't want to vilify your ego.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Ego

• All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • May
  • Universe

• 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

• A lot of my songs, they're like puzzle pieces, and there's just one way to put them together. You could, if you needed to, get the scissors out and cut up things to make them work. But I don't want to do that.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Together
  • Song
  • Cutting

• I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Trying
  • History
  • Pretty

• When, from the depths of your heart, you spontaneously wish all beings to find true, lasting happiness, this is great love.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Great
  • Heart
  • True

• Alan Moore's first choice to be the Comedian... was Burt Reynolds. But I never saw myself as Burt Reynolds; I saw myself as Edward Blake.

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan

• Basketball has consumed me since the age of 7 or 8. I don't know what I would do without it.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Age
  • Basketball
  • Consumed

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

  

  Jennifer Egan