Jennifer Egan Quotes

If you can write any way and it's working out, just bow down in gratitude.

Jennifer Egan

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• I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Want
  • Sure
  • Restaurant

• There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Language
  • Colleagues
  • Racial

• I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Person
  • Creative
  • Busy

• Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Movie

• That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Time
  • New York
  • Cocktail

• During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Country
  • Me

• Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • More
  • Seems
  • Extreme

• I want to be open about my condition to show others that they are not alone in dealing with this form of chronic hives. My advice for people with CIU is to talk to their doctor about their condition.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Alone
  • Advice

• When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• There is a thing that happens when you are not as privileged and you start hanging out with a seedier crowd because you can afford to do the same things, ... And all of a sudden the big night out is sitting in somebody's trailer, smoking something or getting hold of something to put up to your nose.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Up
  • Night
  • Smoking

• We are one another's strength.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Strength
  • To Be

• 'I sometimes think,' said the Eternal, 'that the stars never shine more brightly than when reflected in the muddy waters of a wayside ditch.'

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Shine

• Becoming a human doing was exactly what society needed. But for an individual man, becoming a human doing was his undoing.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Society

• If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Proud

• Some say once gone you're gone foreverAnd some say you're going to come back.Some say you rest in the arms of the SaviourIf in sinful ways you lack.Some say that they're coming back in a garden,Bunch of carrots and little sweet peas.I think I'll just let the mystery be.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Rest
  • Sweet
  • Garden

• I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.

  

  Margaret Mead

• Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.

  

  Peter Davison
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Poetry

• If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a first interview with its object, and even before two words have been exchanged, nothing can be said in her defence, except that she had given somewhat of a trial to the latter method in her partiality for Wickham, and that its ill success might, perhaps, authorise her to seek the other less interesting mode of attachment.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Gratitude
  • Foundation
  • Affection

• With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your later days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable. I cannot... I cannot come to each of you but shall feel obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand.

  

  George Washington
  • Heart
  • Wish
  • Gratitude

• The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • World
  • Job
  • Feeling

• Newt Gingrich is one of the brightest people in the Republican Party and he's always been a little unorthodox in his approach to politics, but that's what makes him Newt Gingrich.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • Party
  • Politics

• Obviously Iran is a very large problem. It's hard to decide what the number one issue [is], but that is a very threatening problem.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Issues
  • Numbers
  • Iran

• If you can write any way and it's working out, just bow down in gratitude.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Gratitude