Jennifer Egan Quotes
I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, 'I'm going to ace this.' It's just not who I am.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.
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I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
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Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.
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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.
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I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.
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The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, despite intense opposition from the religious right.
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I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it.
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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
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Research on the Internet, research what people say about the vintage stores, look online to see if customer service is good because that's really important. Also to see online what other customers say.
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True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
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PsychologÂy is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
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Not counting you I've never had a heartache.Not counting you I never have been blue.There's no exceptions to the rule;I've never been nobody's fool.I've never lost at love not counting you.
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Gary Cooper turned out to be the surprise of my young life. He was so convincing with his stuttering, stammering awkward little boy manners. When the action called for Dr. Wassell to kiss me, I got all set for a bashful boy kiss. Well, it was like holding a hand grenade and not being able to get rid of it! I was left breathless.
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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
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If you remove stricture from a large Perl program currently, you're just installing delayed bugs, whereas with this feature, you're installing an instant bug that's easily fixed. Whoopee.
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I've always been good at refocusing my attention away from something that was bringing me down.
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God's commandments are not given to limit or punish us.
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True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose.
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Paris is an unsolved puzzle. She inspires me in a way that other places don't. And she demands more of me. Just try to write about her without bumping into cliche after cliche.
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The principal source of the harm done by the State is the fact that power is its chief end.
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I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, 'I'm going to ace this.' It's just not who I am.
