Jennifer Egan Quotes

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

Jennifer Egan

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• 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.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Music
  • Giving

• I don't care about revenues.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Care
  • About

• 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.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Business
  • Change

• Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • May
  • Cry
  • Milk

• I think there's something really powerful and refreshing about a woman who is unapologetic.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Think
  • Powerful
  • Woman

• If there's too much of you around, people can get tired of you.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • People
  • Tired
  • Too Much

• Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Man
  • Words
  • I Can

• 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.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Work
  • Running
  • Day

• ...The modern fading of interest in religion.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead

• 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.

  

  Leslie Stephen
  • Good
  • Society

• Christ, people. Learn C, instead of just stringing random characters together until it compiles (with warnings).

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People
  • Together
  • Random

• 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 ...

  

  Eldridge Cleaver
  • Women
  • Law

• 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.

  

  Alice Walker
  • People
  • World
  • 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.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Time
  • She

• 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.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Die

• 'You can’t, can’t be, where I,I be Follow me and you’ll see and you’ll see.'

  

  Kid Cudi

• 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.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Girl

• Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

  

  Emile Durkheim
  • Reality

• I had a Commodore, and then I remember getting a Nintendo for Christmas and it being a total game-changer. And the hours that I would spend playing the video game and trying to convince my mother that it was improving my hand-eye coordination. It was a worthy use of time. It made my hand-eye coordination better!

  

  Lee Pace
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Remember

• Usually after I'm done with working, I just come home and play a little game and go to bed. After work, I have a lot time to do a lot of stuff. I think I've got a good balance of work and play.

  

  Benjamin Stockham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Libertarianism is what you probably already believe: Libertarian values are American values. Libertarianism is America's heritage of liberty, patriotism and honest work to build a future for your family. It's the idea that being free and independent is a great way to live. That each of us is a unique individual, with great potential. That you own yourself, and that you have the right to decide what's best for you. Americans of all races and creeds built a great and prosperous country with these libertarian ideals. Let's use them to build America's future.

  

  David Bergland
  • Believe
  • Country
  • American

• It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens. There are other things I enjoy doing, and I involve myself in them.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • World
  • Job
  • Movie

• Jamming with other people will create energy and excitement that you can feed off, and which will help push you to do things you'd never dream of doing by yourself.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • People
  • Help
  • Dream

• As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

  

  Jennifer Egan