Jennifer Egan Quotes
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.
Quotes to Explore
-
I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
-
I don't care about revenues.
-
For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
-
Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
-
I think there's something really powerful and refreshing about a woman who is unapologetic.
-
If there's too much of you around, people can get tired of you.
-
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?
-
I honestly don't diet or work out regularly. I'm just always running around - you'll never catch me having a day on the sofa.
-
...The modern fading of interest in religion.
-
A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to give a conversationalist a fair chance.
-
Christ, people. Learn C, instead of just stringing random characters together until it compiles (with warnings).
-
I crossed the tracks and sought out White prey. I did this consciously, deliberately, willfully, methodically ... Rape was an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was defying and trampling upon the White man's law ... and that I was defiling his women ...
-
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
-
He puts his bones back on,Turning the clock back an hour.She knows flesh, that skin balloon,the unbound limbs, the boards,the roof, the removable roof.She is his selection, part time.You know the story too! Look,when it is over he places her,like a phone, back on the hook.
-
Ball, Theater, Gesellschaft, Kartenspiel, Hasardspiel, Pferde, Weiber, Trinken, Reisen, … reicht dies Alles gegen die Langeweile nicht aus, wo Mangel an geistigen Bedürfnissen die geistigen Genüsse unmöglich macht. Daher auch ist dem Philister ein dumpfer, trockener Ernst, der sich dem thierischen nähert, eigen und charakteristisch.
-
'You can’t, can’t be, where I,I be Follow me and you’ll see and you’ll see.'
-
Everybody perceives me because of my career that I'm a movie star, or I'm this model, but I'm still the same person I was when I was a little girl.
-
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
-
I know that some actors take acting terribly seriously. I take it seriously in that if someone pays me to do it I know I have to deliver.
-
If someone is a straight jazzhead, or a straight metalhead, or straight classical, they have a very narrow range of what they allow into their lives. But the people who listen to what we put out into the world have to be open-minded. Because we're so pluralist.
-
Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.
-
Sure I'm sad I've never made it to being a big superstar, but I feel absolutely no bitterness. I came out of a town with 250 people and what I've done is extraordinary.
-
Advocating for yourself in the context of friendship starts with choosing the right people to be part of your inner circle.
-
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.
