Jennifer Egan Quotes
If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot of rules. You've got omniscient narrators lecturing at times to the reader in first person. If you go back to the earliest novels, this is happening to a wild extent, like 'Tristram Shandy' or 'Don Quixote'.Jennifer Egan
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
Rachel Zoe -
What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
Octavia Spencer -
As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
Gail Carson Levine -
Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
Umberto Eco -
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
Banks
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
Jack Herer -
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
Vance Havner -
I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
Ralph Lauren -
I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
Abbas Kiarostami -
I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
Vanilla Ice
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
Orhan Pamuk -
Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
Fidel Castro -
I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
Manny Pacquiao -
I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.
Rachel Platten -
How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
Nana Mouskouri
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I grew up pretty much entertaining myself. So I know what its like to be in a room by myself and having fun with something.
Cheri Oteri -
The fastest, cleanest, most joyful way to break out of your own box is by dancing. I'm not talking about doing the stand-and-sway. I'm talking about dancing so deep, so hard, so full of the beat that you are nothing but the dance and the beat and the sweat and the heat.
Gabrielle Roth -
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
Harriet Martineau -
At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.
Charlize Theron -
Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.
Lois Wyse -
If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot of rules. You've got omniscient narrators lecturing at times to the reader in first person. If you go back to the earliest novels, this is happening to a wild extent, like 'Tristram Shandy' or 'Don Quixote'.
Jennifer Egan