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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You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.
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To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.
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We have made people in the industry and the people that see us aware that God loves them.
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I normally shun the spotlight, but I don't mind being the platform.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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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.
