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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I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
Vidya Balan -
I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.
Barbara Block -
I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.
Beau Garrett -
You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.
Eckhart Tolle -
I'm scared of the water, and I hate the sea. I'd be all right if it was clear and I could see what was underneath. But it's the not knowing what's there that freaks me out.
Hannah Mills -
Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.
Jack Schwartz
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I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.
Vince McMahon -
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Saint Augustine -
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
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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 -
One time, on Marine One, the president asked me my opinion. I had a flashback to being at the kitchen table with my dad. That dominant male figure set me up for being confident to express myself with precision and persuasion.
Dana Perino -
You cannot purchase people’s consent through killing them.
Barack Obama -
Certain exterior impulses hit the economic mechanism and thereby initiate more or less regular oscillations.
Ragnar Frisch -
Nam petere imperium quod inanest nec datur umquam, atque in eo semper durum sufferre laborem,hoc est adverso nixantem trudere montesaxa quod tamen e summo iam vertice rursumvolvitur et plani raptim petit aequora campi.
Lucretius -
And I remember what she said to meHow she swore that it never would endI remember how she held me oh so tightWish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.
Bob Seger
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So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a very quiet life.
Jennifer Ehle -
A strong mentor can help a young woman find and advance in the career of her dreams that otherwise may have seemed impossible.
Kirsten Gillibrand -
Three million and one hundred thousand Japanese people died in the war, and many foreigners were also victims.
Akihito -
I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity.
Fernando Pessoa -
It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.
Charles Hodge -
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