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 all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
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When I'm writing, quite often I start having a good time when I see there's a chance to make myself look like a real jerk. I start chuckling and having an interesting, rather than a boring, time.
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We are in a very strange way going back to the mentality of the time when Americans went in covered wagons. I imagine they had a piece of cloth, and the piece of furniture they carried with them meant to be a good piece of wood, and sturdy. We're going back to that.
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'When times are stable, and the sea is calm and secure, no one is really tested.'
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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.
