Jennifer Egan Quotes
'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
Quotes to Explore
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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I love working in New York.
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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
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But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.
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I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
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I'm not a big jazz fan.
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And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.
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Yeah, I miss it. You don't just break off a friendship you've had with a sport, and with all those you've met all over the country. We've got some friends, some very close friends, and you just sit back and think how fortunate you were having a career like that. And, actually, there's nothing in the game of baseball that hasn't happened to me.
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By design, Bitcoin is a scarce resource with a predictable supply of new issuance. And it is this scarcity and predictable supply that make it so attractive as an underlying asset to bind to economic activity and trade.
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I've probably given myself enough time to prepare for this meet and we're all different athletes so I can't take their results as what's going to be inevitable for me.
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Under the Paris agreement, every one of the 147 signatories issues what is called an 'intended nationally determined contribution' (INDC), which amounts to a promise that the nation will take certain actions to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by a certain date.
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I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist still has a difficult mission, to try to boil down people.
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I love competing so much.
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The spirit of rock 'n' roll is alive and well. It kind of just needs to be cultivated a little bit.
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Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.
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I like meeting and connecting with readers.
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I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
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The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.
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When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the evenings, just when I'm about to end my writerly explorations.
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I'm always happy when people choose to get another dog because it's a healthy and healing thing to do, and there are millions of them needing homes. But there is no single time frame to do it in because grieving is an intensely personal experience.
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'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
