Jennifer Egan Quotes
I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, cliched writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn't have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world's major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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The surface is all you get of me.
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If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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One of the greatest snares is the number of good things we might do. Jesus Christ never did the good things He might have done, He did everything He ought to do because He had His eye fixed on His Father's will and He sacrificed Himself for His Father.
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We watched a lot of Hong Kong action movies in my house when I was growing up.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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When you say, 'I'm sorry,' you turn people into your allies, even your partners.
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I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, cliched writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn't have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments.
