Jennifer Egan Quotes
There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow as a journalist you know there are Pulitzers out there and you can work hard and get one. To win it for Fiction seems unbelievable.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.
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The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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When I work on a movie, I never aim for records, collections or the number one position. I always concentrate on my work and look for ways to improve my acting abilities. I also advise my co-stars not to concentrate on these pretty issues and just focus on acting.
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The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'
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I hope that my work ethic has been a model for those who do not believe in themselves or have lingering doubts about their own abilities.
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Many books have mattered enormously to my life and work. 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens would be one of several contenders for 'most influential.' I first read it at 13 and have reread it dozens of times since.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow as a journalist you know there are Pulitzers out there and you can work hard and get one. To win it for Fiction seems unbelievable.
