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 have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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I think - actually, I know - that I am, without a doubt, the world's worst drummer.
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I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It's good for the waistline and it's good for the wallet, is what I'm saying.
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We can't look at them. We've got to go out there and do it ourselves. We're foolish if we're trying to look at the referees.
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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.
