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.
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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.
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I used to shop in ASDA all the time. Every now and then I still go in to get a little salad for lunch.
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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.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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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.
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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.
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Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
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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.
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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.
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For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
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Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
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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.
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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.
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As long as there is no proselytism... we must facilitate the partnership between parents and schools.
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Perhaps that is the real surprise of love; it exists, but one may not attribute causes and effects to it. The existence may appear to be a mere fallacy to the minds of some, and by the time they realise what hit them, they would already be down and dead.
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I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.
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I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly don't see it that way.
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I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that.
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My thesis project was to identify quasars, which are very distant, very energetic objects and still quite mysterious.
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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.
