Jennifer Egan Quotes
When I had my first child, I didn't write for a year, and I felt when I tried to start again I might actually not be able to do it anymore. I really could not do it well, and I felt out of sorts with it.
Jennifer Egan
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Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.
Dan Brown
Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.
Sam Kinison
Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.
Vincent Cassel
When I first have an idea, I'll spit-ball it with my husband: he's my beautiful ideas sounding board. I usually have a year deadline from start to finish, so I'll piss about for three months and pretend to get started. Then there's four to six months of actual writing and, after that, submissions, edits, and eventually a finished product.
Zoe Foster Blake
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Lana Turner
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
Quentin Crisp
This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.
John Perkins
When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons.
Ban Ki-moon
We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.
G. Willow Wilson
I don’t have this concept that separates my art from my daily life. They are one thing to me. They are always one. How do you find the way to express yourself and how to communicate with others?
Ai Weiwei
I've got this horrible feeling that I'm one of those people who'll always have to flog their guts out to get anywhere.
Jenny Eclair
When I had my first child, I didn't write for a year, and I felt when I tried to start again I might actually not be able to do it anymore. I really could not do it well, and I felt out of sorts with it.
Jennifer Egan
