Jennifer Egan Quotes
When I'm not writing, I feel an awareness that something's missing. If I go a long time, it becomes worse. I become depressed. There's something vital that's not happening.Jennifer Egan
Quotes to Explore
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
Taylor Swift -
I used to shop in ASDA all the time. Every now and then I still go in to get a little salad for lunch.
Fleur East -
This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
Iris DeMent -
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
E. L. Doctorow -
I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
Victoria Pratt -
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
J. A. Jance
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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
Barry Ritholtz -
I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
Gary Oldman -
It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
Rachel Griffiths -
My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
Vera Wang -
For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
Rachel Joyce -
Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
Manny Montana
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Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.
Natasha Trethewey -
There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
As long as there is no proselytism... we must facilitate the partnership between parents and schools.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
Zoe Kazan -
And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.
Umberto Guidoni -
If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
W. P. Kinsella
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For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.
J. K. Simmons -
This time I think that my lover Understands me If we have faith in each other Then we can be Strong, baby I will be your father figure Put your tiny hand in mine I will be your preacher teacher Anything you have in mind I will be your father figure I have had enough of crime I will be the one who loves you … 'Til the end of time.
George Michael -
Every film is faced with the enemy of time. Only so much story can fit into the 90-150 minutes of time that moviegoers are willing to stay in their seats. Naturally, compression is necessary. So are the exclusion and amalgamation of characters so that the viewer does not become bewildered.
Alex Gibney -
But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.
Demetri Martin -
I'm moving to a point that I'm fed up with the N.C.A.A. dictation.
The Boz -
When I'm not writing, I feel an awareness that something's missing. If I go a long time, it becomes worse. I become depressed. There's something vital that's not happening.
Jennifer Egan