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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My mother had just died, and I had to walk a long way behind her coffin, surrounded by thousands of people watching me while millions more did on television. I don't think any child should be asked to do that under any circumstances.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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We have all of us got it jumbled up. You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty. That is why time is a rotten jokester and no one ought to let him in to dinner.
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When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.
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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.
